Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Gordon Messmer gordon.messmer@gmail.com said:
The FreeNAS Mini from iX Systems is a good deal more expensive, but the ones I've worked with have been reliable and well suited to running ZFS with good performance.
I just retired a TrueNAS (the iX Systems "enterprise" version of FreeNAS, on hardware they sold pre-configured), and I don't have a lot of nice things to say about it. The hardware they sold was just SuperMicro, so nothing special (and with the standard SuperMicro problems).
There are some good people at iX, but I wish I hadn't had to deal with them so much.
Apologies for coming in late on this, but I wasn't reading the list over the holiday weekend....
Is this just for a home system, or for an organization? And how much storage do you need? Where I work, we really like hardware from AC&NC. We have a good number of the JetStors (DAS or fibre). The hardware is *very* reliable - we're looking, in the next month or so, at decommissioning one that actually SCSI, and has been in production for a *long* time.... On top of which, both their pricing is very good, and their service is good, including response time.
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