[Cialug] SANs/NASes

[David Champion]

If you're looking at buying a small NAS, I would highly recommend the
Synology units. I have a DS216+II, put a couple of 4tb drives in it. Way
faster than the old Promise NAS I had. And if you want to do extra stuff on
the NAS, there are tons of packages available.

-dc

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:

> I would note that pfSense is amazing, but you will want a fairly beefy
> machine if you are going to be anywhere near gig speeds.  The low power box
> I had (quad core atom I think?) could not keep up.  I moved to an older
> used Xeon machine in a desktop case.  It is not low power, but it is plenty
> fast and silent.
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Justin Richeson <neomatrixjr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I too am looking into this a bit...I had thought of doing freeNAS or
> > something similar (need more research).  But I'm also short on
> hardware.  I
> > have a couple 4x3.5 in 2x5.25 bay hot-swap trays, but I'm not sure if
> > they're restrictive at all of what SATA version passes through.... I was
> > also wondering if there was any low-power consumption boards that might
> be
> > capable of this.  I see some of the NAS-in-a-box solutions but the prices
> > on them are OUTRAGEOUS.  I can't believe we have $35 quad core Raspberry
> Pi
> > SBCs but a home NAS box without drives is ~$500!  Yes, I know a PI would
> be
> > BAD at this, but I can't believe there's no other options for < $100 that
> > would work well for this...at least for the cost of the board.
> >
> > Likewise, I had thought about running a PfSense box and getting better
> APs
> > for wifi vs my TPLink box with DD-WRT that always seems to have issues.
> > But my security brain says router + NAS = NOPE.  Alas...it sounds like
> the
> > much desired and anticipated fiber coming to Waukee will come with a
> > router-as-modem type solution that I'll either have to put in passthrough
> > mode, or sacrifice network customization.  In addition, I have an MQTT
> > broker currently running on my windows desktop which is also currently
> > hosting my network shares and crashplan backup.  All of which I'd rather
> > move back to linux...though I opted to shut down my old linux
> > server/desktop (and subsequently sell the hardware) due to excessive
> power
> > consumption since both it and my PC ran 100% of the time.
> >
> > I'm trying to keep my eyes out for low-cost, low-power solutions for some
> > of these tasks at home.
> >
> > On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Kyle H <khamil8686 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I'd give it all a try. I just need hardware. Currently using my 1tb on
> > Raid
> > > 5 for next cloud. Just installed zimbra for email and groupware on a vm
> > > this weekend and just waiting for my static ip. Taking hardware
> > donations!
> > > :)
> > >
> > > On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 9:39 PM Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I would honestly be a little wary of the freenas plugins.  They tend
> to
> > > not
> > > > upgrade well, and some have stability issues.
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 9:18 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 7:58 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net>
> > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > On Sun, 14 May 2017, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Why not give something like FreeNAS a try? It's not Linux based
> > but
> > > > > > FreeBSDbut it sounds really cool. It should run on any relatively
> > > > recent
> > > > > > PChardware, although from what I hear it's happier with the more
> > > memory
> > > > > > thatyou give it.
> > > > > > > For extra geek cred set up a Ceph cluster in your basement!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > Fine for storage, .. but for usability it's hard to beat ownCloud
> > or
> > > > > > nextCloud.
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > OwnCloud/NextCloud aren't really the same thing as they don't
> manage
> > > the
> > > > > underlying storage. That said, FreeNAS has a plugin that lets you
> run
> > > > > ownCloud on your FreeNAS box.
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Jeff Ollie
> > > > > The majestik møøse is one of the mäni interesting furry animals in
> > > > Sweden.
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