Re: [Discuss] no longer stumped

2015-07-03 Thread Richard Pieri
On 7/3/2015 10:11 AM, Laura Conrad wrote: So whoever suggested systemrescuecd is the hero of the week. :) It's my go-to for very good reasons. It would be really nice to have a gnus setup that used imap and left the mail on the server, but did the nice splitting and spam checking that I

[Discuss] no longer stumped

2015-07-03 Thread Laura Conrad
That is, I'm still not sure exactly what fixed the problem (Lenovo bios couldn't find OS after rebuild of /boot partition), but it was some combination of: rebuilding the /boot partition several ways booting off the hard drive from the systemrescuecd running grub-install on both

[Discuss] NAS: buy vs. build

2015-07-03 Thread Tom Metro
This is a perennial topic, but I'm in need of some NAS storage and figured I'd see what the current leanings are of the group. I haven't yet figured out exactly what my requirements are, but I'm probably looking to end up with two NAS units for office storage, where one acts as primary and one as

Re: [Discuss] NAS: buy vs. build

2015-07-03 Thread Richard Pieri
On 7/3/2015 4:30 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: I plan to build a freenas box. I can get a 24-bay 4U case and build into it for about the same price as a synology that can only hold half the disk space and a fraction of the ram.. Neither of which are microservers. the disk and ram was the vast

Re: [Discuss] NAS: buy vs. build

2015-07-03 Thread Derek Atkins
I plan to build a freenas box. I can get a 24-bay 4U case and build into it for about the same price as a synology that can only hold half the disk space and a fraction of the ram.. the disk and ram was the vast majority of the price. -derek Sent on my mobile. Please forgive any typos.

Re: [Discuss] NAS: buy vs. build

2015-07-03 Thread Richard Pieri
On 7/3/2015 2:47 PM, Tom Metro wrote: I'd ask if FreeNAS has been ported to any of them, but given the way FreeNAS seems to have moved towards requiring more enterprise hardware (ECC RAM, and lots of it), that seems unlikely. ECC RAM is a requirement for full ZFS integrity, and lots of it is