[PLUG] Laptop as Server?
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at madboa.com
Tue Oct 27 15:58:48 UTC 2009
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> If your Dell laptop is too old to support Cardbus, you might need to
> re-think the above, and figure out how to get some I/O speed out of
> the laptop. For really old laptops, this is the Achilles heel, they
> were designed to talk to modems and USB mice, not networks and fast
> drives and high data rates.
Until recently, I backed up my laptop "server" (an ancient Toshiba
Tecra 8200) using iSCSI to a Openfiler host. That worked pretty well.
I've had to end-of-life my Openfiler server for hardware-related
reasons; otherwise, I'd still be using it.
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Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/
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