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I've been very happy with FreeNAS running on a recycled PowerEdge 400SC. I boot it off a USB thumbdrive and it manages to spin up and down the six SATA drives I
by hawflakes 16y ago
I've been very happy with FreeNAS running on a recycled PowerEdge 400SC. I boot it off a USB thumbdrive and it manages to spin up and down the six SATA drives I'm using with even even with a cheapie 4-port PCI SATA card.
My workload is pretty light though as it hosts media and I only stream it from two devices max at a time.
But it's hard to beat the price and comprehensive protocol support. FTP, Samba, NFS, AFP, Time Machine backups, iTunes sharing, etc.
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- pibefision 16y agoAre you using zfs? Have you anyone tries to use freenas as a time machine destination?
- hawflakes 16y agoI've been using Time Machine on this setup. So far it hasn't complained. But I also haven't had need to restore yet. As for power consumption, I unfortunately haven't kept tabs on the electricity nor have a Kill-a-Watt. But I have told FreeNAS to pretty aggressively spin down unused drives.
- bshep 16y agoI did the same with openfiler, has worked well for about 4+ years. It has 4x400GB in RAID5 which gives 1.2TB of storage. I've been planning an upgrade to 4x2TB for a 6TB RAID, but I haven't had the time or the $ for the upgrade. I used some of the storage space as a time machine destination, but Apple has issues with Time Machine over SMB, and it got to the point where it was too slow, so I bought an USB disk and just back-up to that.
- stuff4ben 16y agoBut have you thought of the power costs for running that machine? That's why I in addition to protocol and other feature support, I also look at power consumption. These things will most likely be running 24/7/365 and the energy costs add up over time.