> -----Original Message----- > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Tom > Bishop > Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2017 8:23 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network Attached Storage > > 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 Thanks, I'll take a look. I have run some debian vms. Its different but so is centos 7 compared to 6.8