[Cialug] old laptop as file server

[Kendall Bailey]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:47 PM, David Champion <dchampion at visionary.com> wrote:
> Just curious, are you just running this at home? If you're planning to use
> it for anything more than that, the speed of the USB storage is going to be
> a bottleneck. Does that laptop have USB 2.0?

It's just for home, and no video streaming.  I might serve mp3
podcasts files over Samba.  That should work, right?  I just need
central storage for files, nightly backup, etc... and my other machine
died.  I just ordered a new laptop for dev work, and I don't want to
keep it running 24/7 for other machines to use as a central file store
the way I did with the last (headless) machine.

Basically workflow would be something like
1. Multiple home laptops/desktops periodically sync to file server
(jpg, odf, source code, etc...)
2. File server backs up nightly to offsite ( Amazon S3 or similar )

Also
1. File server runs podcatcher
2. Serves mp3 files to media player(s).

Will it be too slow over USB 1.0?

Thanks.
Kendall