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Re: [LUG] Searching for spares

 

On 01/04/13 23:34, Julian Hall wrote:
 On 01/04/2013 23:14, Daniel Robinson wrote:
I like the Synology, Seems to do everything that I wanted to do with a home server. although I would prefer to build one myself. I have cancelled my eBay orders for the Xeon stuff, it was crazy & cool but not practical.

Now i'm torn between owning a Synology, Building a cheep Sempron type PC or a budget AMD F1 based PC for backup and file storage filled with Linux goodness. =)

Daniel
I bought it to replace a cheap and cheerful NAS from Maplin. However, now I need to upgrade the flippin' cabling as well.. CAT5 is not giving Mbit speeds.. needs upgrading to CAT6.

Julian

??? my battered old cat5 manages 100Mb over 25m 'easily'
Tom te tom te tom

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