[Discuss] Setting up a home cloud

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

I've found the WD MyCloud to be a good option. A couple caveats:

1. It's essentially a stripped-down debian system with some proprietary
software that continuously scans for music, photo, and video media to
index, and generates thumbnails and other metadata. Those processes can bog
down the system and make it perform poorly at times.

On my units, I ssh'ed into the NAS and disabled the proprietary WD daemons.
For indexing, I did an apt-get update to enable apt, then installed mlocate
and set up a daily cron job to run "locate /nfs/Public/" and dump the
results into a text file in /nfs/Public, and I do media and metadata
indexing separately on my home web server, where I load it all into
psotgresql.

2. Sudden power loss can cause problems. One of my units got partially
hosed after my house lost power. I was able to get it working again after
ssh'ing into it and experimenting a while, but my long-term fix was to put
the units on a UPS so they won't suffer power outages in the future.



On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:

> I'm looking to replace my current desktop system with a local cloud
> storage. I certainly can use my old desktop system, but it's power usage
> is quite high. My thinking right now is to buy one of the commercial
> systems, such as WD My Cloud, Synology, QNAP, Drobo.
>
> I plan to use my laptop as my primary computer, and use the NAS or Cloud
> device for storage for things like downloading and storage of large
> files I don't need for portability. Back up my wife's laptop, et. al.
> So, low power consumption is a major factor.
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