[Cialug] SANs/NASes

[khamil8686 at gmail.com]

I’m looking into building my own for a fun project. I am checking into parts, but thinking of creating a nas out of an old pc box and mod it to hold lots of 1Tb+ hard drives if there isn’t room enough already. Then add a raid card, make sure the NIC is gigabit, and I was thinking maybe I could add a fibre channel card to make it more like a real san if the cards exist? 😊

From: Tim Champion
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2017 10:18 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] SANs/NASes

I am using low end, 2 bay Synology NAS's with 4TB WD Red NAS drives in a
business environment for SMB shares for about 40 people. We have 7 offices,
and each one has a NAS. I use their built in Cloudstation Sharesync to sync
them all up. It works seamlessly on a minimum of at 10/10 internet
connection.

With drives, I recall them costing me about $500 or so. The cheapest 2 by
Synology NAS on newegg is $149. (plus drives)
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822108213



Tim Champion
timchampion at gmail.com

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:

> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 1:03 PM, <khamil8686 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thank you. Does anyone have any old cases/cpus/mobos/ram to donate to my
> > project of building a freenas server? I’m tight on funds right now to
> build
> > so the project might be poking along until I get some saved up. I will
> > probably get a lot of parts from craigslist, salvage stores like Midwest
> > Electronic Recycling, other suggestions of places. Thanks everyone 😊
> >
>
> +1 for Midwest Electronic Recycling
>
> --
> Jeff Ollie
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