What are you doing for home NAS?

Mark Komarinski mkomarinski at wayga.org
Mon Dec 30 09:05:04 EST 2013


On 12/30/2013 1:00 AM, John Abreau wrote:
> I tried a couple cheaper options such as the WD MyBook Live network 
> drive, but I wasn't really satisfied with them, They were slow to 
> access, slow to spin up when inactive, and had serious performance 
> issues when more than one process was accessing them over NFS, which 
> was the only filesharing option I used. They contained just a single 
> drive, which means no raid-1 safety net when the disk starts to go bad.
>
After getting burned by non-NAS drives in a RAID 5 array, I'm going RAID 
1 for home use from now on.
> Then I picked up an HP N40L mini cube server and installed FreeNAS on 
> it, on a usb thumb drive that I plugged into the internal USB port on 
> the motherboard. It was the first NAS I've tried at home that I was 
> happy with.Performance is much better, even with multiple processes 
> accessing the unit, and large file copies both to and from the unit 
> seem to complete more quickly.
Ooh.  I forgot about that little guy.  Replacement for is seems to be 
the N54L.  Fits 4 drives, might just get 2x4TB and leave the other two 
for future expansion.
> I'm currently using two of the four drive slots with a pair of 2gb 
> drives, configured with ZFS as a raid-1 mirror set. To properly 
> support ZFS, I followed the recommendations in the HOWTO I found 
> online and maxed out the RAM at 8 GB.
>
> It's been a couple years since I set it up, so I imagine there's a 
> newer model available by now that will accept larger drives and more RAM.
>
> After trying FreeNAS, I'd no longer consider the
>
Err, you cut off there...

-Mark


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