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Smallest NAS tips?
| Also, willing to start a discord sever for anyone that would like to help on this project.
| Problem 1: size. Physical and storage.
Problem 2: Power source.
Problem 3: ease of operation, OS.
Problem 4: Comm interface.
Potential solution: Cheap Chinese phone with a high capacity SD card.
| SD cards are not made to backup data... So many SD cards died on me up until now that I really wouldn't recomment you using one. I'd go with a 2,5" inch HDD. Better safe than sorry.
| >>298332
I'd also consider noise levels to be an important aspect. Especially in home environments.
>>298164
No don't start a discord ""server"". Use a free alternative instead.
| >>fe5175 discord is free.
>>298332 I understand a few of these issues. Right now power is off the table, and I don't intend it to store more than a few gigs at a time. (Be it 16 or less)
As for the OS side, my plan is to have it be more of a passive network drive on its own self made short range WiFi (or maybe even low power Bluetooth if this is possible)
>>298362 I know sd is not normally ideal for anything like a NAS. But this unit is more for reading off of than writing to.
| >>298445
No it's not. Not free as in freedom. With proprietary software you pay either through selling your private data or through monetary payments. It employs extreme surveillance tactics and locks you into their ecosystem. Don't use.
https://stallman.org/discord.html
| I'd say the idea about using a cheap phone with a big SD card would be good. You could flash one with LineageOS, set it to work as a WiFi router, and store data on its internal memory or SD card.
Easier to say than do though, I've never done anything like that myself.
| Get a NSLU2, install plenary/lede and use USB-flash drives.
It's a real good deal if you need something cheap with low power consumption.
| power it off of a vape battery with a little daughter board for power regulation and shit
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2
Run it with OpenWRT
It's totally worth it!
| >>298455 I mostly use discord for memes and lolz. If they want that data, they can have it. Now for the development of the device I am looking to make, the idea is that I would like to make it open source. So let them mine that too. If I wanted to keep something safe, I know how to do that.
| >>298990 How important is mobility? You want it with you on the move or it will stay in some corner of your room?
| >>299503 I would like it to be more of a "keep some files on me everywhere, but would like it so more than one pc can take from it at the same time" kind of deal. I have 2 NAS at home already. The idea is mostly mobility. But short burst transfers. -#PIP#
| >>298990
You don't understand the issue behind platforms an proprietary software: It's not only a question of YOUR privacy/freedom, it's a question about EVERYONES privacy/freedom if you help establish non-privacy-aware plattforms/unfree software by using it. I personally give a fuck if people say "I've nothing to hide" or "I love windos/apple". Issues begin, where I am forced to handle it the same way, as your behaviour makes anti-privacy and unfree stuff become standard.
| >>524c47 slow your roll there pal. There's a difference between not knowing and not caring. I know know, but I don't care. They can mine whatever data I leave about. But I have offline/independent systems running for all the stuff I care about. Now if you don't have anything to add to the main topic, would you kindly, shut your howling scream hole. (And maybe start a thread on that where it is the topic.) Thank you. -#PIP#
| >>300294
True. I believe this is known as the network effect. By using non free communication yourself you're peer pressuring others to do the same.
| >>524c47 listen...
If you wanna offer a decentralised option for me to use that offers much of the same options as discord, then link me some info. Otherwise, repetition doesn't make you right. -#PIP#
| >>f16ef4
Thank you for the link. In the future, try something like "hey, you should look into X instead of Y. It's more secure and they don't mine your data"
Once I finish work, I'll take a deeper look into it.
| >>7e3be0
BOOM! just like that you hit the bottom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Graham%27s_Hierarchy_of_Disagreement.svg
at this point, I assume I have gotten all the tips I am going to get. Thank you all (except >>7e3be0 ) for your contraction. I will work with what I have and log my original plan away for the future when my skills are better.
-#PIP#
| The fuck's an NAS?
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| I'm looking to make something like a NAS or pirate box. But I wanna make it fit in my hand if I can. The first thing I thought was to use an micro SD as the harddrive. But that's the obvious start. I would use a pi zero, but I still wanna make it smaller. I know my biggest issue will be power if I wanna make it portable. But I wanna make it work first.
Anyone have tips?