You can attach nearly every device by USB, so it's quite easy to upgrade the device with bigger hdds or even a wlan module. This all also makes it very interesting for serving as an mini-home-server, to download things while you are away, serving files, being an dhcp server, etc., for example. So it doesn't produce any noise, which does make it very attractive for private use. The device don't have and don't need an mechanical cooling. 8 watts under high load, with an attached USB HDD. It seems to consume just 3-4 watts being idle and max. 4 USB Ports (with one being an mini USB - dock-plug).256 MB Flash (contains the preinstalled PlugOS).The Seagate FreeAgent DockStar is a very compact device with the following hardwarespecs: The Hardware is looking like this from the front I read this article (sorry: German), which describes how to install a custom Debian system on that device, found that whole thing _very_ cool and wanted to do the same thing with a Gentoo OS. It's a mini Linux based device, with the intended use to store files on attached USB devices and serving them within a cable based network, using an application to access them and also storing that files somewhere online in the net. Today I bought a " Seagate FreeAgent DockStar" for 40 €. Posted: Mon 1:08 am Post subject: Installing Gentoo on an Seagate DockStar (Mini Server) ![]() Gentoo Forums Forum Index Gentoo on Alternative Architectures Installing Gentoo on an Seagate DockStar (Mini Server) Gentoo Forums :: View topic - Installing Gentoo on an Seagate DockStar (Mini Server)
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