Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at 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. mark