I've been thinking a lot about how would i keep all my pictures, videos, ebooks etc'.
my requirements:
1. single location, preferably accessible from everywhere (AKA www).
2. redundant - no data loss
3. forever within reach - no "we went broke" policy (see iwantsandy.com...)
4. serves as base for media center.
5. data forever accessible - no single network/raid card that goes out of production could stop me.
for the above reasons, i've selected netgear ReadyNAS duo, with 2 HD of 1 TB each
RAID 1 configuration, which means that one is the exact replica of the other, but on the same breath, i can take any of them and simply mount it anywhere else, data is not encypted/xored in any way.
The only problem is that when i connected my brand new macbook to the switch the read was soooo slow, it was simply not useful.
snooping through NetGear's forums (god bless), i found out that all i needed to do was run:
sudo sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0
in order to persist it to survive reboots, i created a file /etc/sysctl.conf and added the line
net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0
and viola - it runs fast over wireless, and everybody's happy!
next task is to mount all the data in, and buy a decent UPS to protect & serve.
after that we'll set up the media center - mac has built in FrontRow but i didn't find a way to configure it to harvest my NAS.
tc,
n./
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