[TriLUG] Linux Hardware Solution

[Alan Sterger]

Thanks Carl.

Guess the devil is in the details.  I backup 3 SOHO computers to a 
Fantom Drive Raid0 USB 3.0 connected to a Linksys E3000 USB 2.0 port.  
It takes 13:15 hours to backup 166GB of data via USB 2.0 to the NTFS 
formatted drive.  The software, Acronis True Image 2012, handles image 
backups to Ext2/3, but cherry-picking files from a mounted drive will 
only work with NTFS.  Acronis also supports NAS, FTP, SMB...

So my thinking was to purchase/build one of those small (sexy) Linux 
hardware devices supporting USB 3.0 to get near 5GB/sec throughput or at 
the least, a Gigabit NAS.  Fanless?  Well, maybe just reduced noise.  It 
just can't sound as loud as a Sparc server in a closet.

Cheers,

-- Alan