On Jan 4, 2017 6:31 PM, "TE Dukes" <tdukes at palmettoshopper.com> wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of John R > Pierce > Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2017 1:50 PM > To: centos at 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. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos 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