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For cooling the GoFlex, you may want to remove the bottom cover and keep it on a laptop cooling fan or something similar, as the processor does tend to get hot slowly.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you could throw in a WiFi USB card, and turn your Goflex into a very powerful NAS, something that I&#8217;ve done is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have a DLNA\/UPnP Server running, as I have it as my NAS<\/li>\n<li>Internet Gateway<\/li>\n<li>Torrent Station(I use transmission daemon with the Web UI)<\/li>\n<li>FTP Server<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are way more applications of this tiny little plug computer, I&#8217;m using it for development.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it&#8217;s preferably better to have Gentoo or Arch Linux on a USB stick, as when testing several times by hard power offs and resets, you don&#8217;t want the SATA drive spinning up for no reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, first off the ability to just add one USB device is a little boring, I&#8217;ve been using a Belkin 4 port USB HUB, and the results are good. For cooling the GoFlex, you may want to remove the bottom cover and keep it on a laptop cooling fan or something similar, as the processor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[361,122,103,345,346,350,360],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gen-sab-fed","tag-applications","tag-embedded","tag-gentoo","tag-goflex","tag-goflex-home","tag-seagate","tag-uses"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqtyx-kp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":289,"url":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/sabayon-four-oh\/","url_meta":{"origin":1265,"position":0},"title":"Sabayon fOuR oH","author":"Jude Pereira","date":"June 16, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Based on Gentoo, Sabayon 4.1, tells me: Great performance with less RAM(though you need like 1GB RAM for it to work well enough). 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