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Tell me about your NAS setups /g/.
I am about to move house, and I am going to upgrade from a high capacity, non network attached hard drive I just have sat at my battle station that I plug into my various devices, to some network attached storage. Shit I might even fuck around with a RAID setup.
I am curious what other people use. Got any horror stories to share? Any brands/products you would steer well clear of?
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Seconding this. I have relevant needs.
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FreeNAS
Just build a machine with at least 8G ram and use decent HDDs. FreeNAS will boot/run from USB. You don't need or want a RAID controller - as ZFS needs direct access to each individual disk. Check out the different ZFS "RAID" levels and choose the one that suits your comfort level with drive failures - buy that many drives.
If you really want to do it right - see if you can get something reasonably priced that will do ECC RAM (this is recommended for ZFS).
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>>58707644
That really sounds like it is not cost effective compared to some out of the box solutions. What advantages do you think building your own purpose built solution would provide?
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>>58707962
On a custom built machine you could run a VPN or something on it if you are interested in that.
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>>58707962
For one "out of the box" NAS solutions are pretty damn expensive for the type of weak hardware you get in return.
That's not to say they're necessarily bad, however if you want other features or more capable hardware for cheaper building your own is advantageous.
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>>58707962
FreeNAS has a container system that allows you to run virtual machines or applications like plex directly on the server
The new version coming out soon uses docker containers and some other magic you can access the VM's and control them from the browser
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i have a freenas box with some drives in it with sickrage and transmission
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I've got Ubuntu server with a btrfs raid5 array. Technically unstable but has never given me trouble. Got 15 TB or so with redundancy.
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>>58708398
>technically unstable
Get on my level. I have 21TB running JBOD in a Windows Server box in the closet. It's all ReFS, non-redundant.
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>>58707644
Why 8Gb? For a bunch of raid 0/1 disks this sounds redundant.
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>>58709060
ZFS needs RAM. The more the better. ECC if you can do it. This is why I put "RAID" in quotation marks. It's ZFS's equivalent of RAID.
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>>58707119
A Lenovo PX4-300d, with 4x2TB disks in R5. Upgraded the RAM to 4GB. Saturates 1 Gbps when moving larger files with ease.
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