On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:24 PM, km <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am planning to purchase a rack mountable NAS (30TB) for my office > requirements. > I require a few recommendations on the vendor who supplies such NAS devices > which support FreeNAS. Please let me know.
Most of the low-mid range storage vendors integrate a customized firmware based on the Linux kernel. As for HW compatibility with FreeNAS , the "spoke in the wheel" will be the drivers for the on board chip set. Make sure FreeBSD supports the chipset. I would suggest contact local storage vendors and see if they will let you evaluate FreeNAS on their box. You can create a Disk on Module - using an usb drive and take it to the vendor's lab. Also discuss their hardware warranty policy vis-a-vis using your own solution v/s their "custom" firmware. openindiana (the fork of opensolaris) or Nexenta (the CE supports upto 18TB) are other software options. HTH -- Arun Khan Sent from my non-iphone/non-android device (অরুণ খান্/अरुण खान) _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
