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Comment on How to build an 8 TB RAID5 encrypted time capsule for 500 Euros by Sergio

Sergio — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:11:34 +0000

Thank you very much for this article, it was very helpful when I was trying to decide whether I should buy this or not. I went for the N40L because the price difference was unnoticeable and it comes with a faster CPU and 2GB of RAM.

Unfortunately, I just started my “lots of TB and RAIDn” project at a bad time, as HDD prices went crazy after last October’s flooding in Thailand. As you said, the prices have doubled since then. I used to buy WD 2TB Green HDDs for 65 euros, but now they cost (depending on the retailer) between 120 and 180 euros. While other brands haven’t been as affected by the flood as WD, the high HDD demand has made their prices increase too. I guess everything will stabilize gradually with time, as Thailand recovers from the flood. But it’s also going to take more than this holiday season.

Regarding power consumption, while doing my research on this machine I saw this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zbjGywEkTA (amongst others, I think) where power consumption is measured during standby and also during a boot process. For extra power savings, there are tutorials on the web on how to replace the stock 200w PSU for a 90w PicoPSU. Power consumption drops from 36w to 18w when idle and to 0w in standby.

Comment on VPN (IPsec) tunnel between a pfSense 2.0 router and a FRITZ!Box by Jan Schulz-Hofen

Jan Schulz-Hofen — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:55:02 +0000

cat1510: yep, works fine here. let us know once you’ve figured it out…

Comment on VPN (IPsec) tunnel between a pfSense 2.0 router and a FRITZ!Box by cat1510

cat1510 — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:15:47 +0000

Not working for me.

Box is 7390 and pfsense 2.0 Release
Log in pfsense:

Dec 11 17:07:42 racoon: INFO: unsupported PF_KEY message REGISTER
Dec 11 17:07:42 racoon: DEBUG: got pfkey REGISTER message
Dec 11 17:07:42 racoon: DEBUG: pk_recv: retry[0] recv()
Dec 11 17:07:42 racoon: DEBUG: getsainfo params: loc=’172.10.0.0/24′ rmt=’10.0.5.0/24′ peer=’NULL’ client=’NULL’ id=1
Dec 11 17:07:42 racoon: DEBUG: no check of compression algorithm; not supported in sadb message.
Dec 11 17:07:42 racoon: DEBUG: hmac(modp768)
Dec 11 17:07:42 racoon: DEBUG: reading config file /var/etc/racoon.conf
Dec 11 17:07:42 racoon: DEBUG: pk_recv: retry[2] recv()
Dec 11 17:07:42 racoon: DEBUG: pk_recv: retry[1] recv()
Dec 11 17:07:42 racoon: DEBUG: pk_recv: retry[0] recv()
Dec 11 17:07:42 racoon: [Unknown Gateway/Dynamic]: ERROR: such policy already exists. anyway replace it: 172.10.0.0/24[0] 10.0.5.0/24[0] proto=any dir=out
Dec 11 17:07:42 racoon: [Unknown Gateway/Dynamic]: DEBUG: db :0x80163a910: 172.10.0.0/24[0] 10.0.5.0/24[0] proto=any dir=out
Dec 11 17:07:42 racoon: [Unknown Gateway/Dynamic]: DEBUG: sub:0x7fffffffe580: 172.10.0.0/24[0] 10.0.5.0/24[0] proto=any dir=out
Dec 11 17:07:42 racoon: [Unknown Gateway/Dynamic]: DEBUG: db :0x80163a790: 172.10.0.1/32[0] 172.10.0.0/24[0] proto=any dir=out
Dec 11 17:07:42 racoon: [Unknown Gateway/Dynamic]: DEBUG: sub:0x7fffffffe580: 172.10.0.0/24[0] 10.0.5.0/24[0] proto=any dir=out

Dec 11 17:07:42 racoon: [Unknown Gateway/Dynamic]: DEBUG: sub:0x7fffffffe580: 172.10.0.0/24[0] 10.0.5.0/24[0] proto=any dir=out
Dec 11 17:07:42 racoon: [Unknown Gateway/Dynamic]: DEBUG: db :0x80163a490: 172.10.0.0/24[0] 172.10.0.1/32[0] proto=any dir=in
Dec 11 17:07:42 racoon: [Unknown Gateway/Dynamic]: DEBUG: sub:0x7fffffffe580: 172.10.0.0/24[0] 10.0.5.0/24[0] proto=any dir=out
Dec 11 17:07:42 racoon: DEBUG: got pfkey X_SPDDUMP message

in Fritzbox: Adresse im Internet: 255.255.255.255 ?

For you it worked out of the Box?

Comment on How to build an 8 TB RAID5 encrypted time capsule for 500 Euros by Jan Schulz-Hofen

Jan Schulz-Hofen — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:34:40 +0000

@Christian: The Barracudas were dead-cheap when I got them. Looks like they’ve almost doubled since. Maybe you’ll have to wait until after the holiday season?

http://geizhals.at/deutschland/?plive=588865

@Florian: I’m sorry – I haven’t gotten around to measure power consumption, yet.

Comment on How to build an 8 TB RAID5 encrypted time capsule for 500 Euros by another Florian

another Florian — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:17:42 +0000

Hi!
I’m more or less torn whether I’ll build a n36l or buy some NAS-Box (like Synology). Have you any numbers on the power-consumption of the n36l? That’s sort of an important point to me, since I won’t be using it more than 5-6h/week but still would like to keep it runnign 24/7 (just in case… )

Comment on How to build an 8 TB RAID5 encrypted time capsule for 500 Euros by Christian Scherpe

Christian Scherpe — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:18:39 +0000

Where did you get 4x 2TB drives for only 230,- EUR? Please tell me!

Comment on Remove diacritics (Umlauts, Accents, Special characters) in JavaScript by Jan Schulz-Hofen

Jan Schulz-Hofen — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:04:44 +0000

Unfortunately, I don’t know. German and french seem to be covered.

Comment on How to build an 8 TB RAID5 encrypted time capsule for 500 Euros by [Sammelthread] HP ProLiant N36L Microserver - Seite 94 - Forum de Luxx

[Sammelthread] HP ProLiant N36L Microserver - Seite 94 - Forum de Luxx — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:53:36 +0000

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Comment on How to build an 8 TB RAID5 encrypted time capsule for 500 Euros by Michael Hagmann

Michael Hagmann — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:54:28 +0000

thanks for the update, I just use FreeNAS 8rc2 which has everything included. But in a Memorystick with it, 4 disks and you are finished

Michael

Comment on Remove diacritics (Umlauts, Accents, Special characters) in JavaScript by Silvan T. Golega

Silvan T. Golega — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:19:50 +0000

Thanks for sharing. This could be very useful indeed. Would be interesting to know what languages are covered to make it easier to extend it.