[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.

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/



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