What are you doing for home NAS?

[John Abreau]

After trying FreeNAS, I'd no longer consider the consumer-level drives such
the MyBook Live as serious options.


On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Mark Komarinski <mkomarinski at wayga.org>wrote:

>
> 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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