What are you doing for home NAS?

[M D L]

I've found that NFS has been sufficient for my needs at home.  I had
picked up a SuperMicro Atom motherboard (MBD-X7SPA-H-O) and used that to build a home NAS.  I didn't use FreeNAS, or any other custom distribution.  I've been running CentOS on this.  I have 4 WD black drives in a md raid-5 (3+1 spare).  Thinking of switching to the WD red drives at some point though when I need more room.  Definitely found that running jumbo frames on the ethernet side helps (9000 MTU).  

Michael

On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 17:34:57 -0500
Mark Komarinski <mkomarinski at wayga.org> wrote:

> I have a bit of end-of-the-year money that I'd like to spend and 
> thinking of a dedicated NAS device for my home rather than having hard 
> drives start spilling out of my basement server.  I figure I need about 
> 4TB usable, so either 2x4TB or 4x2 or 3TB is a configuration I could 
> work with.
> 
> In looking at the products that are out there for standalone NAS, 
> they're REALLY expensive even before adding the cost of drives.  The 
> two-drive systems seem to be just barely adequate for my needs, and the 
> four-bay ones jack the price up to just going BYO ($700-$800 without 
> drives).  Even then, the Drobo a friend has puts its NFS server in 
> userspace (WTF?) so performance and features like file locking are lacking.
> 
> So I ask the question - what are you doing at home?  Build my own? Have 
> any device that's still for sale you can recommend?  Anyone using 
> FreeNAS and have suggestions?
> 
> -Mark
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