WD Labs, Raspberry Pi, ownCloud and Snappy Ubuntu
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yeah, the versioning history is file specific and not a security thing.
Ubuntu's Snap tech perhaps could be made that way, or something like btrfs snapshots but those have a cpu and memory overhead.
These images are specifically made for the Raspberry Pi + Western Digital PiDrive (see here for info). WD wants to sell a special ownCloud edition of the PiDrive with ownCloud preinstalled and asked the ownCloud community to create an image for it - we took the challenge
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I like the idea of the challenge, but like coliver, I'm wondering what the end goal is? Is this consumer based or business based? I could see buying a NAS that has ownCloud on it, plug in and go... but for consumers? Just wondering?
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@Dashrender said:
I like the idea of the challenge, but like coliver, I'm wondering what the end goal is? Is this consumer based or business based? I could see buying a NAS that has ownCloud on it, plug in and go... but for consumers? Just wondering?
A decent NAS with RAID 1... or a bigger one with RAID 6 (Thinking something like a Buffalo Terrastation)... That'd be pretty nifty. ALthough you'd still need to back it up.
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@dafyre said:
@Dashrender said:
I like the idea of the challenge, but like coliver, I'm wondering what the end goal is? Is this consumer based or business based? I could see buying a NAS that has ownCloud on it, plug in and go... but for consumers? Just wondering?
A decent NAS with RAID 1... or a bigger one with RAID 6 (Thinking something like a Buffalo Terrastation)... That'd be pretty nifty. ALthough you'd still need to back it up.
Sure, but SMBs could get away from having a local server, and just a NAS, and that NAS could back itself up to a cloud service.
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@Dashrender for us the end goal is to provide something for home users, way cheaper and more flexible than a NAS.
The idea of backup to a cloud service - YES YES YES
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@jospoortvliet said:
@Dashrender for us the end goal is to provide something for home users, way cheaper and more flexible than a NAS.
The idea of backup to a cloud service - YES YES YES
A slightly more robust product would cover much of the SMB very well.
Think Raspberry Pi 3, ownCloud 9, CentOS 7 on ARM, tiny RAID 1 enclosure with SATA drives and good backup options. Only slightly more than you have here already, and it would easily be the "go to" NAS replacement for the twenty and fewer user SMB market.
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@scottalanmiller True, if/when it grows a bit stronger this could be a SMB platform as well. The new enclosure we work on can handle 2 7mm hard drives, thus even offering RAID posibilities.
But the Raspberry platform itself (1, 2 or 3) doesn't have SATA capabilities and probably won't get that. I'm still hoping/waiting for a platform which does have that, yes, you're right that SATA is really a big boost for performance. So would be 1Gbit ethernet...
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@jospoortvliet said:
@scottalanmiller True, if/when it grows a bit stronger this could be a SMB platform as well. The new enclosure we work on can handle 2 7mm hard drives, thus even offering RAID posibilities.
But the Raspberry platform itself (1, 2 or 3) doesn't have SATA capabilities and probably won't get that. I'm still hoping/waiting for a platform which does have that, yes, you're right that SATA is really a big boost for performance. So would be 1Gbit ethernet...
Yeah for SMB, 1 Gb ethernet and SATA would be required.
Great idea though... no more windows server - this would handle most needs.
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Also could be easily built in to ReadyNAS and Synology products. ownCloud could be nearly ubiquitous almost overnight.
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