the sheevaplug might be a good option, low power use, pretty powerful, nice and small<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Thomas Milne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tbrucemilne@freeyourmachine.org">tbrucemilne-TcoXwbchSccMMYnvST3LeUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 9:09 PM, William O'Higgins Witteman<br>
<<a href="mailto:william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA@public.gmane.org">william.ohiggins@utoronto.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
> I am planning to set up a fileserver for my home network. Mainly, this<br>
> is so that when my wife is at home she can sync her laptop and her<br>
> desktop (both Macs) via a quick-and-easy rsync so that both machines are<br>
> always in sync, with an additional copy on the network from which the<br>
> offsite network backup can happen at night.<br>
><br>
> I don't want to set up a separate full-sized machine to take this role -<br>
> I'd prefer a small, quiet and inexpensive device that I can plug in and<br>
> will "just work".<br>
><br>
> I am looking at these two devices - a Linksys Media Hub or a WD MyBook:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=27_357&item_id=023031" target="_blank">http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=27_357&item_id=023031</a><br>
> <a href="http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=15_213_603&item_id=031508" target="_blank">http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=15_213_603&item_id=031508</a><br>
><br>
> I would welcome any other suggestions or caveats. Thanks!<br>
> --<br>
><br>
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</div></div>I have the WD, and it's great. I don't know what else there is to say,<br>
it did what they said: I plugged it in and it worked.<br>
<br>
I chose it because it's WD, and they always seem to come highly<br>
recommended when it comes to storage.<br>
<br>
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