Hello, On 19 November 2015 at 05:30, Devin Reade <gdr at gno.org> wrote: > --On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 10:31:36 AM -0500 Tim Evans < > tkevans at tkevans.com> wrote: > > Would like to hear recommendations here. Besides the ReadyNAS, I have >> worked with a Thecus NAS (don't recall model). What are the features I >> should look at? >> > > For reasons that others have already touched on, I like FreeNAS, as > long as you're using the base system. I have one that is running jails > so that I can run some custom software on the same box, and I think > when possible I'd prefer to keep such software off on another machine. > (In this case though, it's a situation of keeping the program as > close as possible to the data to minimize network traffic.) > > I have one FreeNAS running on an HP Microserver Gen 8 (four bays, > RAID-Z2 double redundancy, which means two disks worth of usable > space). The OS is on an internal memory stick, the spinning drives > are all data drives. It's a nice solid piece of hardware and suitable > for home & small office. > > I also have FreeNAS running in a larger system which is based on an > Intel DBS1200V3RPS motherboard, a Xeon processor, lots of ECC memory, > and 36TB of disk. (6 SATA connectors on board, and 6TB drives were > the largest available at the time; it will get expanded soon via an > add-on RAID card running in JBOD mode.) It's a solid system. > > FreeNAS will do almost anything you'd expect of a storage device. > I'd suggest downloading it and trying it on a spare piece of (64bit) > hardware, but unless it's using ECC memory don't trust your production > data with it. I've exercised the disk replacement process once and > it went flawlessly. ('Twas far too early, but it was probably a > manufacturing flaw given the early failure.) > > If you're planning on doing data encryption or data duplication, make > sure you read into specific hardware requirements for that before you > go and buy stuff. > > And given which mailing list we're on, I'll add in that CentOS 5, 6, > and 7 NFS clients talk to it just fine. (And OS-X clients as well, > with both NFS and AFP. I don't have windows clients, but they shouldn't > be an issue.) > > Devin > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > A little computer with two disk on RAID1 and http://www.nethserver.org/ is based in CentOS. Best regards, -- Oscar Osta Pueyo oostap.listas at gmail.com _kiakli_