Re: Recommendations on reliable home fileserver hardware?
there is also the droboshare. great little fileserver. Last I knew Drobo supported only Samba, not NFS -- but that was some time ago. Have they come out with an upgrade? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Recommendations on reliable home fileserver hardware?
Clifton Royston wrote: I'd consider running a Mac Mini (tiny, silent, s/b reliable) if it weren't for needing 2+ drives for mirroring. this would work fine with gmirror using usb/firewire drives. there is also the droboshare. great little fileserver. aopen cubes run great. i've had one since 2005, runs quiet with two fans. they fully support freebsd and it can be more than a fileserver. its about the size of a two slice toaster. it runs below 25db of noise. I'm comfortable either building my own system, or buying a packaged system if it offers better value. Any advice would be welcomed. -- Clifton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Recommendations on reliable home fileserver hardware?
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:13 AM, michael michael.copel...@gmail.com wrote: Clifton Royston wrote: I'd consider running a Mac Mini (tiny, silent, s/b reliable) if it weren't for needing 2+ drives for mirroring. this would work fine with gmirror using usb/firewire drives. there is also the droboshare. great little fileserver. aopen cubes run great. i've had one since 2005, runs quiet with two fans. they fully support freebsd and it can be more than a fileserver. its about the size of a two slice toaster. it runs below 25db of noise. I'm comfortable either building my own system, or buying a packaged system if it offers better value. Any advice would be welcomed. -- Clifton As a heads up, if you do this, do NOT use the Western Digital MyBooks...I tried this...and gave up and got a D-Link NAS. The MyBooks sleep after no activity, and I was getting serious corruption. --Brian -- _-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_ Brian McCann I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I've got hundreds of people waiting to abuse me. -- Bill Murray, Ghostbusters ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Recommendations on reliable home fileserver hardware?
My FreeBSD file server at home has been running for 5 or 6 years on a succession of generic PC small form factor boxes (a.k.a shoebox cases.) I'm not very happy with this approach, because the hardware keeps dying every two years or so. The latest incarnation is getting flakier and flakier and it's time to replace it. I think one problem is that the cooling is lousy on the ones I've used, at least with two hard drives - I've ended up running with the cover off so it won't die rapidly - but maybe there are better ones out there. Can anyone recommend an integrated SFF system or other small case/mobo combination which they're using with FreeBSD 6 or 7, and which is both long-lived and fairly quiet? (It sits on my desk, and near my wife's desk, so the vacuum-cleaner-like noise levels from many 1U servers will not cut it.) As I am running two 200G PATA drives in gmirror - this has saved me twice now - one additional requirement is that it must fit at least two standard 3.5 hard drives and have an IDE interface. (Eventually I may switch over to SATA but would rather not change everything at the same time.) I'd consider running a Mac Mini (tiny, silent, s/b reliable) if it weren't for needing 2+ drives for mirroring. I'm comfortable either building my own system, or buying a packaged system if it offers better value. Any advice would be welcomed. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- clift...@iandicomputing.com / clift...@lava.net President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/ Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting services ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Recommendations on reliable home fileserver hardware?
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Clifton Royston wrote: [snip] Can anyone recommend an integrated SFF system or other small case/mobo combination which they're using with FreeBSD 6 or 7, and which is both long-lived and fairly quiet? (It sits on my desk, and near my wife's desk, so the vacuum-cleaner-like noise levels from many 1U servers will not cut it.) As I am running two 200G PATA drives in gmirror - this has saved me twice now - one additional requirement is that it must fit at least two standard 3.5 hard drives and have an IDE interface. (Eventually I may switch over to SATA but would rather not change everything at the same time.) I'd consider running a Mac Mini (tiny, silent, s/b reliable) if it weren't for needing 2+ drives for mirroring. I'm comfortable either building my own system, or buying a packaged system if it offers better value. I have a Dell GX150 SFF which has been running 24/7 for about two years now with no problems (knock on wood). Right now it's running 7.1-PRERELEASE from November. It's small and very quiet; I like it. You may have issues with: a) it nominally only supports one hard drive, but there are slimline spots for optical and diskette drives, so you may be able to commandeer one of those for a second hard drive; b) the machine I have has SATA interface, which is truly nothing to fear. From FreeBSD's standpoint, it looks exactly like ATA. If I were trying to do what you want to do, I'd probably end up with one HD running SATA in the hard drive slot, and the other running PATA in the optical slot. I don't know if the physical dimensions would work out for that. See the service manual at http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/opgx150/sm_en/smdsktp.htm ..and the user guide at http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/opgx150/en/ug/index.htm Anyway, I've had good luck so far with Dell desktop hardware; it seems to be well-made, easy to work with and QUIET. Check it out if you can get a machine cheap or free. Hope this helps. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Recommendations on reliable home fileserver hardware?
Clifton Royston wrote: My FreeBSD file server at home has been running for 5 or 6 years on a succession of generic PC small form factor boxes (a.k.a shoebox cases.) I'm not very happy with this approach, because the hardware keeps dying every two years or so. The latest incarnation is getting flakier and flakier and it's time to replace it. I think one problem is that the cooling is lousy on the ones I've used, at least with two hard drives - I've ended up running with the cover off so it won't die rapidly - but maybe there are better ones out there. Can anyone recommend an integrated SFF system or other small case/mobo combination which they're using with FreeBSD 6 or 7, and which is both long-lived and fairly quiet? (It sits on my desk, and near my wife's desk, so the vacuum-cleaner-like noise levels from many 1U servers will not cut it.) As I am running two 200G PATA drives in gmirror - this has saved me twice now - one additional requirement is that it must fit at least two standard 3.5 hard drives and have an IDE interface. (Eventually I may switch over to SATA but would rather not change everything at the same time.) I'd consider running a Mac Mini (tiny, silent, s/b reliable) if it weren't for needing 2+ drives for mirroring. I'm comfortable either building my own system, or buying a packaged system if it offers better value. Any advice would be welcomed. -- Clifton I've got a shoebox Gateway I love for the case size, however it's drive location for the HDD has to be the worst place on earth to put it there. I'm almost tempted to pull the floppy drive out and stick the hdd in there instead -- but I digress. Taking a little more for desk space, you can always run with 1 internal 3.5 drive, and hook up an external USB drive for the mirror. FreeBSD won't think of it any different, it's just an 'ad' device and a 'da' device. FWIW, this is just another option for you. HTH --Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
