Recent content by tamasrepus

Please don't take the thread OT…

After the enclosure and controller, these cost more than the N36L itself, no?

It does not support UEFI, but it does support GPT. I'm using a 40 GB SSD as a system disk (Linux) partitioned with GPT and it works fantastic. Partition table: $ sudo gdisk -l /dev/sda GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.6.14 Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM...

In my N36L hardware review, I measured 45W at "idle" (hard disks were NOT spun down but the system wasn't doing anything).

Already a third of the price of the N36L, and no drive sleds for those 7 drives. Yah, you have fun with that.

Do multiplexed-over-internal-SATA enclosures exist? I've seen it done over eSATA, but not internal SATA. Most enclosures use mini-SAS, like the N36L. That said, it's pretty clear that the enclosure you posted isn't one of them — you'll need an SATA cable per drive to your controller.

I'm a little confused with the obsession with benchmarking in this thread. Yes, it's a netbook CPU, but file serving is completely I/O bound. And unless you're using the included 160 GB disk, the system is a "barebones" unit and whatever performance you get is dependent on what you put into...

As I mentioned, rsync, unencrypted. Downloading a few multi-gigabyte files from the N36L to a laptop with an Intel X25-M SSD. Filesystem on the N36L was XFS setup on Linux software RAID 5 device w/ a v1.2 superblock. Laptop was ext4. In case it isn't obvious, in no way was I attempting to...

I'm running Debian GNU/Linux (AMD64) with 4x 7200 RPM 500 GB disks (I initially bought 4x 2 TB disks, but decided to use them elsewhere) in Linux software RAID 5. I haven't setup any NAS-type software or file sharing, but I've no problem maxing out the Gigabit Ethernet rsyncing things to and...

Done — Thanks! The photos have been around for a few weeks and I think are already in Google's first page of results.

Whatever was on sale at Newegg… which happened to be the G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333. Like I mention in the review, I had to remove the heatsinks to make them fit in the case. The heatsinks were so easy to remove, there's no way it could have been...

In case others are looking for more info… I've both a decent set of pictures (better than what's already on the Internet, IMHO) , as well as my own hardware review. Working on a software review… I'm running Debian GNU/Linux off an 8 GB flash drive on my N36L.

Those are actually my photos on Flickr. I have one, and am working on a hardware (should have finished it two weeks ago) and software review. What's up? I run Debian Linux, so can't comment on FreeBSD compatibility. Also running it off an 8 GB USB stick w/out any problems (so far).

You really don't need a dedicated swap partition. Take a look at compcache, or perhaps a small swap file. It's not a myth, but it's not exactly a substantial performance gain either. But if you're not going to use the space, leaving it unpartitioned can't hurt (unlike a large swap partition...

There aren't any immediate disadvantages. However, you will waste disk space—disk space you could be using for something else. Also, when you do run out of RAM, your system will start swapping to disk, at which point the load will go so high that it will become unusable till it just...