Design Objectives
by
Dave Goeke
Having decided to build a new Toaster RAID, I had to think seriously about what I wanted to accomplish. This was going to be an expensive hobby project so I set out to design something worth the cost. I wanted a platform that represented all the changes and improvements in technology since the 2001 Toaster RAIDs, and it was important to me that it would have an attractive, artistic appearance. After considering the costs and capabilities that would be useful in a home file server, I wanted Toaster RAID #4 to have the following design and hardware features:
- an attractive retro appearance
- to look like a toaster with no visible external changes
- shiny and reflective surfaces
- lights that made use of the reflective surfaces
- enough drives to make use of RAID 5
- a platform that illustrated all the changes and improvements in form factor, capacities, speeds, and performance compared to previous Toaster RAIDs
- an x86 CPU architecture
- the capacity to serve all my personal storage needs
- DHCP capabilities to service all the other clients running at my house
The inside of the cover was polished to enhance the reflective surfaces so that the flashing and blinking colored lights would be more visible.
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I thought the idea in fitting a NAS into a toaster is that you plugged the disks through the bread slots!
"Is that Patrick Swayze!?" -Moses as he looked across the Red Sea.
I thought the idea in fitting a NAS into a toaster is that you plugged the disks through the bread slots!
yeah it would ve been nice if you could just shove in two hot plug & play drives in there.
gives a whole new meaning to "hot swappable"
yeah it would ve been nice if you could just shove in two hot plug & play drives in there.
Imagine a backup-product like the various 'one-touch' backup offerings -- but in this case, you just push a drive into the toaster slot -- it begins the backup process, when done, it can eject** the drive. That sounds very sweet.
**-raise drive, not physically throw it out of the toaster! :-)
Then why not use some of the 640/750GB or 1.5/2TB drives?
Any ways cool mod.
ghetto-fab
Here's a better one:
http://www.embeddedarm.com/softwar [...] oaster.php
Grate job, looks perfect mate.
wouldve been cooler to put in a dvd drive in the bread slots.
How's this hold up in a heavy sea? Data corrupt, read errors as you pound to weather could be a problem. Also where's the view of the light show, I wanted to see those led's flashing and shining thru the bread slots. A hollow-graphic hula girl shining a-top the slots would be a motivational feature. Ideas for toaster RAID 2012
Maybe you could connect it wirelessly to your network and "hide" it in your kitchen.
Maybe you could connect it wirelessly to your network and "hide" it in your kitchen.
hmmm and then your girlfriend get's a craving for some toasted bread ...
all kinds of crumbs and sh** inside your raid
Seems like a perfect place to hide all the p0rn, innocent looking toaster.
Maybe you could connect it wirelessly to your network and "hide" it in your kitchen.
Sounds like an amazing way to hide something.
Possibly make it so 1 of the slots work, and insulate the computer from the heat? Forcing a shutdown if the toaster is actually used. All wireless of course.
hmmm and then your girlfriend get's a craving for some toasted bread ...all kinds of crumbs and sh** inside your raid
Ha. My brother used to put waffles in our VCR, and yet it still lived. A protected compuer would be fine.