NASLite Network Attached Storage

Hi guys,

I was watching a Tv program the other night and was showing how to use various items as a battery,

http://www.unit5.org/christjs/Potato%20Battery.htm

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q= ... arch&meta=

the one that caught my eye was a simple potatoe, it took a charge and could be used to power items. then I have a idea, if I can charge it with negative and postive elements then in effect I have 1 and 0 binary. without going in to so much detail I was able to charge two potatos with a postive and negtive charges, i hooked each potatoe up by cutting up a USB cable and running a small interface so hold the USB cables. power is not needed as there are no moving parts much like a USB pen, i booted up the nas and i had another option of a drive. i checked the settings and the potato was showing as a large usb device, i ran the format and it showed up as a 20 gig device.

will post some pics and more detailed info later..

As luck would have it, I came across the same info and tried it out as well.

Our potatoes are a bit larger over here in Europe and I managed to get 67Gb from one of them... The only problem is it doesn't fit in a 5.25 bay.

I can confirm, this does work with naslite.

Nah, that's old news.

The Debian guys tried that with Debian 2.2, hence the distribution's very appropriate codename.

I too can confirm that works with NASLite. Further, by rearranging the zinc and copper in the interface, one can set the potato storage to RO for safe and secure use as a boot device.

How big are your potatoes Tony?

Bigger than yours even in RAID-1

Guys I found out if you increase the resitance then you increase the storage, I cut off the bottom of the pototoe and put it in a bowl of water with a little salt the potassium and sodium in the salt creates a reaction that the pototoe sucks up and increases the binary sections that can be formatted.

But I think I hit a snag, one of the kids ate one of my drives (pototoe) well half a partition and now she is ill, I think she may have caught a computer virus.

Tony if you run the pototoe though a chipper you have mutiple raid drives, thing is I can only format in FAT,

light bulb goes on, if i chip pototoes and put them in FAT, mmmm wonder if it will catch on.

Ralph/Tony,
I was wondering since this new development was announced. will you consider a NASLite-2 PD (Potato Drive) version and will this be eligible for a discount?!



Todd

Tony:

You'd better alert the Governor of Idaho ... they're not going to be able to ramp up supply fast enough without advance warning !

Who would you need to contact for the U.K. ?

Georg

problem, if the pototoe drive gets to hot you end up with a mashed up drive. so be careful.

or a fried drive

um...guys...my dog just ambled in and ate my 160gb spud-drive.

I need an app that'll clean the dirty data...once I retrieve the spud during tomorrow's walkies.