Just a generic PC I built out of parts. Basic i7 processor I had laying around, although you could certainly use something less powerful. Motherboard with a RAID controller, 12GB of RAM, four 2GB hard drives, two 1GB hard drives and a 128GB SSD for a boot drive (again, major overkill but I had it on the bench.) The hard drives came out of my “failed” Drobo and have been working just fine. I think I’ve had one failure of a Toshiba drive and it was still under warranty.
With a ZFS encrypted RAID 5 array I think I have around 6GB of space or thereabouts. Hot swappable drives, serious security and redundancy, based on a FreeBSD kernel, this thing has been rock solid since I built it. I’ve had media stuff on it, specifically Plex, but no one in the house really seemed interested in using it, so I blew it away and recovered the space for my Time Machine volume. -D > On Oct 8, 2018, at 10:09 PM, OK Don via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > What hardware are you running it on? > I mistakenly thought that new hardware meant to be NAS would run a long > time. In reading reviews, it w=seems that too e many are finding that the > lower end Synology, QNAP, and WD NAS boxes are lasting just about three > months! > > On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 8:26 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> FreeNAS, dude. My Freenas server has been churning away for almost three >> years without a hitch. >> >> Sorry to hear about the QNAP stuff. My Mac buddies like them and Synology. >> >> Again, I prefer to “roll my own” after getting burned by Drobo and DLink. >> I’ve never looked back. >> >> -D >> >> >>> On Oct 8, 2018, at 9:15 PM, OK Don via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> The second QNAP TS-328 has died now. They last three months, then just >> turn >>> off and won't turn on again. Always plugged into a UPS, power supply >> brick >>> still puts out power, but the box with the drives is just dead. The first >>> one lasted three months, died, got replaced by another new one. The good >>> news was that I just plugged the drives in, and all was good. The bad >> news >>> is that it just died - three months after getting it. I'm NOT impressed >>> with QNAP at this point. Don't know what I'll do next, but I'm looking >> into >>> Synology - just don't want to spend a lot of money ( <$300 ). >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > > -- > OK Don > > *“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of > our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain > > "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who > learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence > for themselves." > > WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* > 2013 F150, 18 mpg > 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg > 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
