On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > > No experience with the QNAP, but here's what I'd do. > > Get a refurb Dell server and stuff it full of disks. > > Put FreeNAS on it. > > Done. > > Apparently you missed this part: > > >> But management here is concerned that good Linux people are harder > >> to find than Windows people. They don't like that my minions don't > >> have expertise with such systems. So I'm considering something that > >> comes with a bit more hand-holding, a bit more "ready-to-go, > >> out-of-the-box". And NAS hardware can be cheaper than general-purpose > >> server hardware. > > -- Ben
No, I didn't miss that. It's why I mentioned it. http://www.freenas.org/about/features.html That's the beauty of FreeNAS - it's made to be easy to administer through a web interface - very simple, very clean. Admins don't need to know Linux (or FreeBSD, which is what it's actually based upon.) It can do iSCSI if you wish, but is a very good CIFS server. You can also set it up via SSH, but it's not necessary unless you're doing "interesting" things. Heck, if you want, they'll even sell you a commercial appliance that does the same thing, and the pricing isn't unreasonable.. http://www.ixsystems.com/storage/ix/home-office-storage/freenas-mini.html But, if that's not your thing, that's fine. Kurt
