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Ooh, these FreeNAS boxes for the home are very nice: https://www.ixsystems.com/freenas-mini/ https://www.ixsystems.com/freenas-mini/ When I built my home NAS t
by buro9 10y ago
Ooh, these FreeNAS boxes for the home are very nice: https://www.ixsystems.com/freenas-mini/ https://www.ixsystems.com/freenas-mini/
When I built my home NAS there wasn't an off the shelf FreeNAS option and it was definitely a "research all the things, build your own system" with the huge caveat of "Did you put enough RAM in that?".
The 8-bay one is particularly good value, rivalling similar systems by QNAP, and I personally do have a QNAP and if I were to buy again today it would definitely be one of these FreeNAS boxes instead.
- rsync 10y agoI think the generation 8 "HP Microserver" is a good system. One limitation is the 16GB max ram, but given that it's for home use with (presumably) large files and a small number of simultaneous clients, it shouldn't be a problem - even if you use 4x 8 TB disks. The key is to populate it with ECC ram which should be an absolute requirement for any ZFS system.
- olp2 10y agoA quick google search brings up [0] telling ECC RAM is just as necessary as it is for another filesystem. [0]: http://jrs-s.net/2015/02/03/will-zfs-and-non-ecc-ram-kill-your-data/ http://jrs-s.net/2015/02/03/will-zfs-and-non-ecc-ram-kill-yo...
- bpye 10y agoJust bought one of these for exactly this! Going with 4 3TB disks in raidz2 because it was the best price/TB I could find without taking some external 5TB drives out of their enclosures.