On Jun 24, 2016, at 12:41 AM, Michael Dexter <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > ++
I’ve been using FreeNAS for close to 10yrs now. Don’t want to use anything else. I haven’t looked at the VNX stuff. Clarrion was running a stripped down version of Windows. Isilon of course is FreeBSD based. Ditto with Netapp. Regarding XFS, why would you need ways to zero out data? I thought the whole point was to keep the data…isn’t that why we’re storing it? I mean…srsly. -- Louis Kowolowski [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Cryptomonkeys: http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/ <http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/> Making life more interesting for people since 1977 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
