On Jan 4, 2017 6:31 PM, "TE Dukes" tdukes@palmettoshopper.com wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2017 1:50 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network Attached Storage
I've been using a HP Microserver for the last couple years as my home file server, with FreeNAS, and 4x3TB drives.
mine is one of the first generation N40L microservers, which I picked up on deep discount when they were on clearance. I put 16GB ECC ram in it, and its been working quite nicely.
-- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
That is a nice looking unit but pricey. They are $867 with no drives on Newegg.
Think I'm going with the TS140. My TS130 has been pretty solid. I can get one w/o a HD, Xeon processor, for under $400.
I tried installing freenas as a vm on virtualbox last night for a test run and got into a loop of reboots. I followed the directions in their documentation. Never got it working. After about a dozen tries, I gave up.
It has me worried about buying all this hardware and not being able to get it setup.
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My go to for small storage arrays is a project called Openmediavault. Volker I believe was involved at one time with freenas and decided to go his own way with an implementation based on Linux and morals. I'm a Linux guy and went this route, its very well done and has a good user forum, I have several installations running and they have been solid. It's based on Debian but I don't hold that against him. ;)
I tend to always just do raid10 with my group's, syncing is fast and if I need to drop to a command line it's just normal mdraid commands.
My .02