I've found that NFS has been sufficient for my needs at home. I had picked up a SuperMicro Atom motherboard (MBD-X7SPA-H-O) and used that to build a home NAS. I didn't use FreeNAS, or any other custom distribution. I've been running CentOS on this. I have 4 WD black drives in a md raid-5 (3+1 spare). Thinking of switching to the WD red drives at some point though when I need more room. Definitely found that running jumbo frames on the ethernet side helps (9000 MTU).
Michael On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 17:34:57 -0500 Mark Komarinski <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a bit of end-of-the-year money that I'd like to spend and > thinking of a dedicated NAS device for my home rather than having hard > drives start spilling out of my basement server. I figure I need about > 4TB usable, so either 2x4TB or 4x2 or 3TB is a configuration I could > work with. > > In looking at the products that are out there for standalone NAS, > they're REALLY expensive even before adding the cost of drives. The > two-drive systems seem to be just barely adequate for my needs, and the > four-bay ones jack the price up to just going BYO ($700-$800 without > drives). Even then, the Drobo a friend has puts its NFS server in > userspace (WTF?) so performance and features like file locking are lacking. > > So I ask the question - what are you doing at home? Build my own? Have > any device that's still for sale you can recommend? Anyone using > FreeNAS and have suggestions? > > -Mark > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
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