On 6/22/16 9:52 AM, Vedanta Teacher wrote: > This may or may not help... but ixsystems sells a FreeNAS Mimi > with 4 bays for $999 @ https://www.ixsystems.com/freenas-mini/ > I've never used the FreeNAS OS myself .
Well, some of us have. In fact, I have been doing 3+ years of FreeNAS support. Love or hate FreeNAS, it's the OpenZFS you want: https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/openzfs-vs-the-competition/ Nothing comes close, and I base that statement on extensive research, though I don't fully know what EMC does under the hood because it's proprietary. No, not Btrfs. They borked the volume manager, have space accounting issues and still think in terms of say, the fstab and fsck. My favorite: Forget to tell Btrfs your data is compressed etc. and it appears corrupt, until you remember you have to do that kind of thing manually. XFS? Search for "XFS null files". They found ways to (repeatedly) zero-out data in case of a panic, even with READ-ONLY MOUNTS! How did they pull that off? Anyway, watch for FreeNAS 10 and while you'll probably say the $999 plus disks Mini is expensive, that's a solid piece of hardware for protecting your data. ECC RAM, etc. Michael _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
