Re: [CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

On 11/18/2015 10:31 AM, Tim Evans wrote: I have an original-label Infrant (now NetGear) ReadyNAS storage appliance that's been running for 8+ years. Except for replacing its power supply, it has not skipped a beat in all this time. I use it primarily as a backup device (via NFS) for a couple of

Re: [CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

Not sure if this will help, but our company is building out an open source NAS. We are still not completely done, but we are nearly done. If you would like to experiment , do let us know. Here is the docs link : https://fractalram.gitbooks.io/integralstor-unicell-v1-0-user-manual/content/ We

Re: [CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

Are you familiar with GlusterFs / Ceph ? Eero 19.11.2015 8.34 ip. "Lamar Owen" kirjoitti: > On 11/18/2015 04:42 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > >> the /really/ hard one when rolling your own highly redundant systems with >> high data integrity needed for things like transactional

Re: [CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

Hello, On 19 November 2015 at 05:30, Devin Reade wrote: > --On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 10:31:36 AM -0500 Tim Evans < > tkev...@tkevans.com> wrote: > > Would like to hear recommendations here. Besides the ReadyNAS, I have >> worked with a Thecus NAS (don't recall model). What

Re: [CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

On 11/18/2015 04:42 PM, John R Pierce wrote: the /really/ hard one when rolling your own highly redundant systems with high data integrity needed for things like transactional database servers, is implementing redundant storage controllers with shared writeback cache... you pretty much have

Re: [CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

On 11/18/2015 09:31 AM, Tim Evans 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? Not a recommendation per se, but if you're interested in running CentOS on your NAS, I've put

Re: [CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

On 11/18/2015 11:50 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: What size storage are you looking at, and what's your budget? Are we talking a 4TB drive, or 33TB, or...? Sorry, should've mentioned this is for home/home office. The ReadyNAS is a four-bay unit, with 500GB disks. Will want a four-bay,

Re: [CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

Tim Evans wrote: > I have an original-label Infrant (now NetGear) ReadyNAS storage > appliance that's been running for 8+ years. Except for replacing its > power supply, it has not skipped a beat in all this time. > > I use it primarily as a backup device (via NFS) for a couple of Linux >

[CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

I have an original-label Infrant (now NetGear) ReadyNAS storage appliance that's been running for 8+ years. Except for replacing its power supply, it has not skipped a beat in all this time. I use it primarily as a backup device (via NFS) for a couple of Linux machines, (via SMB) for a couple

Re: [CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 12:38:06 -0500 Tim Evans wrote: > Sorry, should've mentioned this is for home/home office. The ReadyNAS is > a four-bay unit, with 500GB disks. Will want a four-bay, probably with > 1- or 2-TB disks. I just bought a QNAP TS-251 a couple of months ago to replace my old

Re: [CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

Tim Evans wrote: > On 11/18/2015 11:50 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> What size storage are you looking at, and what's your budget? Are we >> talking a 4TB drive, or 33TB, or...? > > Sorry, should've mentioned this is for home/home office. The ReadyNAS is > a four-bay unit, with 500GB disks.

Re: [CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

On 11/18/2015 07:31 AM, Tim Evans wrote: Would like to hear recommendations here. https://www.ixsystems.com/freenas-mini/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

On Nov 18, 2015, at 11:04 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > On 11/18/2015 07:31 AM, Tim Evans wrote: >> Would like to hear recommendations here. > > https://www.ixsystems.com/freenas-mini/ For those who don’t know why you’d pay $1000 for a diskless 4-bay NAS box when

Re: [CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

We're using Synology boxes with good results so far. They're built on Linux with ssh access and good support for things like rsync. They have options to backup to remote servers including Amazon too. On Wed, Nov 18, 2015, Tim Evans wrote: > I have an original-label Infrant (now NetGear)

Re: [CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

On Nov 18, 2015, at 12:16 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Warren Young said: >> - They’re serious server-grade machines, not borderline flimsy boxes >> competing largely on price. Built in and supported from Silicon Valley, not >> China. :) >

Re: [CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

Once upon a time, Warren Young said: > - They’re serious server-grade machines, not borderline flimsy boxes > competing largely on price. Built in and supported from Silicon Valley, not > China. :) iXsystems sells rebadged SuperMicro stuff, nothing special (not made in

Re: [CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

On 11/18/2015 10:42 AM, Bill Campbell wrote: We're using Synology boxes with good results so far. I've heard good things about Synology. My home NAS going on 3 years now is a HP Microserver running FreeNAS, with 4 x 3TB SATA drives. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

Re: [CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

On 11/18/2015 11:16 AM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Warren Young said: - They’re serious server-grade machines, not borderline flimsy boxes competing largely on price. Built in and supported from Silicon Valley, not China. :) iXsystems sells rebadged SuperMicro

Re: [CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

On 11/18/2015 11:55 AM, Warren Young wrote: It’s rather annoying to buy a NAS, then later realize you need to buy*another* NAS as a mirror in case the first one roaches itself. Isn’t that what redundant storage is supposed to avoid? no, RAID is purely availability when faced with single

Re: [CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

Once upon a time, Warren Young said: > I see that story in the exact opposite way: iXsystems found and fixed the > problem, expending heroic levels of effort to do so. > > By contrast, I’ve had several $300-500 NASes become unmountable for one > reason or another, and the

Re: [CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

On 11/18/2015 1:25 PM, Warren Young wrote: My point is that unreliable NAS/RAID systems*require* this dual redundancy, whereas a reliable system only needs normal backups, that being the sort where you rarely go back and pull more than a few files at a time. well, at the sub $1000 price

Re: [CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

On Nov 18, 2015, at 2:58 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >>> On 11/18/2015 11:55 AM, Warren Young wrote: It’s rather annoying to buy a NAS, then later realize you need to buy*another* NAS as a mirror in case the first one roaches itself. >>> > Which is why, for home, I went to

Re: [CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

Warren Young wrote: > On Nov 18, 2015, at 1:01 PM, John R Pierce wrote: >> >> On 11/18/2015 11:55 AM, Warren Young wrote: >>> It’s rather annoying to buy a NAS, then later realize you need to >>> buy*another* NAS as a mirror in case the first one roaches itself. >>> Isn’t

Re: [CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

--On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 10:31:36 AM -0500 Tim Evans 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

Re: [CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

On Nov 18, 2015, at 1:01 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > > On 11/18/2015 11:55 AM, Warren Young wrote: >> It’s rather annoying to buy a NAS, then later realize you need to >> buy*another* NAS as a mirror in case the first one roaches itself. Isn’t >> that what redundant