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abishur

<t>There are actually two threads where we're discussing RAID options. The basic answer is that our options are either to do a software RAID (which unless you're putting more drives on there than would be worthwhile due to speed restrictions of the USB the r-pi should handle software RAID just fine)...

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<t>Quote from miauto on August 23, 2011, 10:09 Maybe i am wrong, but i am almost sure that everybody initially understood you were going to release a entire ARM11 system enclosed in a embedded size of a usb memory, not credit card size. Actually, when I first saw the all pictu...

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Don't forget to check out this thread where a lot of case ideas are already being discussed

abishur

<t>David (who I believe said he was from Spain in the intro thread so I'm guessing his native language is Spanish) mentioned a similar concern in another thread. His basic worry is that there will be a need to recompile every driver for an ARM environment and he wants to know how you will surmount t...

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<r>The USB thing was always just a prototype. Even before they got the alpha boards it was broadly advertised that the footprint goal of the final product would be credit card sized. I'm not really sure how that one took you by surprise <E>:?</E> Regardless, to answer your question, there...

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<t>It's definitely the same price wise for initial set up, but I'm thinking long term here. A PC, even an older one, is going to draw a lot more power than a simple enclosure would. The idea I'm shooting for here is to save money in the long term in power consumption using an r-pi and enclosure over...

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Indeed it is, have you ever used it? I've found plenty of such drives on-line but I'm looking for first hand experience with the device. (I'm also not opposed to each drive being in its own enclosure daisy-chained to each other to simulate a single large enclosure)

abishur

<r>That's a legit reason. One thing I did when I was first playing with Linux is I took an old hard drive and put it in my PC. Then I built a switch that would let me turn on either my Linux drive or my windows drive. Now days, as long as you have that spare drive you can always set up a dual boot e...

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<r>One really interesting thing I've noticed while watching this thread is the fact that a lot of people have a lot of different ideas about that one item that simply *everyone* uses and the r-pi needs to integrate since everyone will use it... but most the time it only one person mentioning it with...

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<t>My guess is that there probably won't be bulk discounts (and this is just my guess, I haven't heard anything from them about it or not). I know that they're already providing this to us as very low costs. Their ultimate goal, I believe, is that for every one purchased they get to donate one. With...

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<t>Quote from obarthelemy on August 20, 2011, 18:29 @abishur why raid 5 ? raid gives higher performance, higher capacity, and higher availability. For a home NAS, you don't really need performance (you need performance not to suck, but not to be up there), and you don't need high availability. ...

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It's a pretty robust and powerful language that also has some far reaching roots so it has wide acceptance and appeal

abishur

well I'll give it my best shot for you DaQatz... um... yo mamma?

abishur

<r>Good news for those who don't like Ubuntu, the device doesn't come with an OS <E>;)</E> The current plan (which as always is subject to change) is that they *might* offer as an option SD cards with an OS preinstalled on it. So if you don't want Ubuntu you can use an SD card you already own and in...

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<t>I want to do this exact thing as well! One of the big things I'm looking for is a USB that can handle RAID 5. I know that Linux can emulate a RAID, but if my Linux install craps out on me, I don't think I could remake the RAID of a new install of Linux. But if I had an enclosure doing the work, a...

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no idea on that one I fear. We'll just have to see what happens

abishur

<r>Quote from DaQatz on August 19, 2011, 15:19 <URL url="http://www.raspberrypi.org/?pa.....&t=36">http://www.raspberrypi.org/?pa.....&t=36</URL> So according to that post the kernel is *not* closed source. It requires an special module, but that module will be available for ...

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<r>Quote from magnitux on August 19, 2011, 17:05 So when we buy Raspi we can not use it ifwe do not buy SD card with him. It's a shame because the price has risen whether to buy an SD Card and more Ah, no. As stated in my initial response to your post "You can use a S...

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<t>Quote from Svartalf on August 19, 2011, 16:40 Quote from abishur on August 19, 2011, 14:00 My only desire for a windows based r-pi would be ease of integration. I've used linux a lot and there's always some weird ghost in the shell when it comes to getting SMB working correctly. I get i...

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<t>hmm... with this scenario hooking up more than one to an r-pi at a time probably would not work based on the r-pis ethernet limitations, but if you have a gigabit network you can easily have multiple r-pis with a kinect on each one. (The r-pi can't do gigabit itself but wouldn't have a problem co...

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Is the kernel module closed? I knew the GPU blob was closed source (but not by r-pi's choice) but I thought the drivers that interacted with it were not closed sourced. Wouldn't that include the kernel?

abishur

aw, I'm already conflicted over whether I would want to attempt to reflow it (I realize I'd probably have to pay through the nose to get it professionally done, I'm assuming I'm rich and famous by this point in time) or to preserve it's original condition for collector value sake's

abishur

Okay, so you're worried about a tiny little GPU blob that's closed sourced and unused by 99.9% of the clientele? I'm all for open sourced stuff too, but isn't that taking open vs closed sourced to a Hatfield vs Mccoy level?

abishur

<r>From what you're saying it sounds like the answer is dependent on the devices you're planning on hooking up to it. Officially, the LAN9512 can support the traditional max daisy chained 256 devices. But if one of your devices needs the full bandwidth of the port then you could only attach devices ...

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well, I was board back towards the beginning and looked through the users profiles of the low number user ids and several of them I think were either automatically created with the forum or set up as test accounts, so you could be as low as 140!

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