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ended up going with a straight ahead file server, that won't need much processing overhead and will just dish files. This is kind of a "starter" system until I can get a bigger box going with a little more grunt and maybe a ZFS system with an SSD cache. I need to play around with that in the background a bit, but want a little bulletproof NAS for now. all good, in theory anyway!I found out the HP n54L microserver runs the Sinology open source software build (xpenology) great out of the box, with a firmware upgrade and a better NIC card dropped in. You get performance at about ~150Mbps, which is about the same as the sinology 412+. should set me up well for a bit until things get revved up, at which point I'll transition over to the other server and use this one for backups. On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Terry Barnum <terry@dop.com> wrote: We've been running FreeNAS on a 48TB box and are in the process of putting together a second one. There is a web GUI which greatly simplifies setup. It does have a few quirks (every once in a while AFP seems to crap out) but for the cost of an enclosure and drives it's hard to beat. I'm trying to learn about ZFS for the second box. No 10Gb ethernet yet but it's on the radar. |
