Posts Tagged ‘nas’

The fan on my Thecus N2100 is getting a bit noisy. I am sure it is starting to fail. Trying to get hold of a new one is a nightmare. However, I have eventually found a potential replacement at Maplin.co.uk. I will let you know if it all works.

UPDATE: The above fan from maplin.co.uk works a treat. Fits perfectly (had to tie up the cable to keep it neat and tidy as it is a bit long). It’s brushless, very quiet, has the right connector and works with the two speed settings in the thecus admin interface, even reporting the RPMs. It was a £8 gamble and it paid off

I currently have a thecus 2100 nas box with dual drives in raid 1 which is on 24/7 and is autobacked up to whenever my laptop or the wifes laptop is on.  It would be great to use this box as an SVN server, maybe a torrent server,etc but I really don’t want to connect it directly to the net / port forward, as I have no idea how secure the linux os that is installed on it really is.  Although firmware upgrades are available, they do not appear frequently enough to ensure that the box is secure and is not affected by the latest vulnarability.

A better solution would be to just run a pc, with unbuntu server etc on it, I can stick any services I see fit, apache, print server / svn etc. (thecus box uses the web server for the admin interface) but finding a small form factor, low power device that will take tw0 3.5″ sata drives is a challenge.

The MSI Wind Nettop might be it….. (Removing the XP crap first of course)

It supposedly supports 2x 3.5 sata drives, which is perfect and draws a measley 35 watts…..