[Cialug] SANs/NASes

[Kyle H]

thank you. I will have to check them out. Thats all I would need, one with
some tb drives in it.

Ty!

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 5:45 PM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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