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#DOCKSTAR NAS PORTABLE#
#DOCKSTAR NAS FREE#
#DOCKSTAR NAS MAC#

It ships with a year's free subscription to Pogoplug, but the service is charged at $29.99 per year thereafter. The device itself is available now priced at $99.99 (roughly £60 exc.

#DOCKSTAR NAS MAC#

Its networking functionality is powered by the Pogoplug service from Cloud Engines and provides the ability to map drives to Windows or Mac PCs, as well as the facility to access or share stored data from a web-based interface. The FreeAgent DockStar measures 86mm x 85mm x 38mm and weighs 0.5kg.

#DOCKSTAR NAS PORTABLE#

We presume the USB ports will accept any portable storage device. It'll connect to your network via Ethernet, and it sports three additional USB ports for further network storage expansion.

The device, pictured below with optional hard drive inserted, is essentially a network docking station that allows users to insert a FreeAgent Go hard drive for access from any web-enabled location.

I happen to also like pretty graphs.Got yourself one of those portable FreeAgent Go hard drives launched this time last year? If so, you're now able to equip that drive with NAS functionality thanks to Seagate's newly-launched FreeAgent DockStar network adapter. One of the things I have is a real biggie for statistics. Nothing can beat the official documentation on the ArchLinux ARM website.

Make sure the first partition is formatted ext2, has the ArchLinux arm5te root tarball extracted.

Additional USB ports on the DockStar also let you attach non-Free Agent hard drives to the device, or to create additional storage capacity. Seagates accessory provides network capabilities to existing FreeAgent external hard drives. I personally gave Arch 10GB of space on a 250GB hdd. Seagates FreeAgent DockStar: instant NAS, just add hard drive. The performance you get is greater than what you would expect from a powerful and much more expensive. There needs to be at least one partition with at least 5.6GB of space available for ArchLinux. Seagates DockStar: Instant NAS, just add hard drive.

Pull down the alternative U-boot script installer.

Disconnect it from your PogoPlug account.

Installation wise, its a matter of following the instructions. The device itself is supported quite well and has most, if not all, the Arch base packages available to it. On the slightly different side, I have ArchLinux ARM running on it.

Drill holes for the zip-ties holding the ripped-out beating heart of the DockStar.

Replicate the design overall onto a hunk of Plexiglas.

Mock the whole thing up in cardboard (this is an important step).

More useful if you’re the guy in the bubble below the plane.)Īnyway, my design process essentially boiled down to:

create a share called Calibre on NAS, be sure to have the metadata.db. One of its first uses was in World War II, on the front of bombers which needed to have impact-resistant noses (so you could see out of them. a simple tool to be installed on a small server (Seagate Dockstar in my case). the material itself is a lightweight, usually thin layer of a synthetic polymer intended to be both heat resistant and shock resistant. Technically, there are many names for the (usually) transparent, shatter-proof material, including lexan, perspex, lucite, and oroglas. I’m kicking myself for not taking more pictures, but the overall design is pretty simple: Two sheets of plexiglass.įirst, a short primer on Poly(methyl methacrylate), AKA “Plexiglas”. That home happens to be sandwiched between some slabs of Inventables plexiglass. However, I couldn’t put my 2.5″ PATA adapter onto it stock, so it needed a new home. This Cube case is specifically designed to house a large number of drives. I had been looking for a tiny NAS to run some home storage things, so a donation to the kitty later and away I go. Fractal Design Node 804 is the second most popular casing when it comes to making a NAS box. We at the Lab had a Segate DockStar kicking around, taking up space. Januin Projects / Random tagged hack / inventables / Linux by Morgan Gangwere