[Cialug] SANs/NASes

[Nicholas Olson]

I've been pretty happy with FreeNAS and have been using it for a number of
years now. My current box is an Athlon II Quadcore, 16GB of RAM, on a
MicroATX board in a mid sized case.  Pretty sure everything but the storage
drives I picked up in various Shellshocker deals for a total cost of
~200$,  I much prefer that to the cost of the dedicated NAS solutions out
there, especially since many still require you to provide storage. For
storage I currently have 5x3TB that creates a volume I have NFS mounted to
my Plex server [virtual]. I also have 3x1TB share that is mounted as a
datastore in VMWare. The downside of the MicroATX is most have limited SATA
ports, so I have two SATA cards in the PCIe slots. When I build a new one,
I'm probably going to look for something with more ports. The system boots
off a thumb drive stuck in the back. ZFS can be memory hungry depending on
the options and use case, but for what I do 16GB has been plenty. Its not
the most elegant solution, but it's served me well.

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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