Recent content by 00Roush
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Small 5bay cases/systems?
Glad you checked out NAS4Free. If you didn't know NAS4Free is the continuation of the original FreeNAS project after the name was bought by iX Systems. I haven't really checked out HAST that much but my understanding is it is to allow for something like you described. Then it also provides... -
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Small 5bay cases/systems?
Well first question is do you want/need hotswap? First thing that comes to my mind is possibly the HP MicroServer. The new Gen8 versions are hotswap but only support 4 drives. Sounds like they have mixed reviews... Also fairly new so they might not be fully supported yet by some of the... -
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(hopefully) Building a low cost/performance PC-based NAS
Glad to hear you got the gigabit NIC. I think a gigabit switch will probably give you a bit higher speeds. To help with performance you can also change SAMBA settings... disable store DOS attributes, Send/Receive Buffer Size set to 0, and disable AIO. If you are using ZFS you can also... -
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(hopefully) Building a low cost/performance PC-based NAS
Very good points about higher loads and resilvering. Wonder what will happen to this little test box I have if I hammer on it for a day or two... then pull a drive and do a resilver? My understanding is that most of the previous kernel panic issues were related to memory not being allocated... -
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(hopefully) Building a low cost/performance PC-based NAS
I respectfully disagree about the memory requirements for ZFS. For home use where there is not that much random IO the memory requirements are not that high. For higher loaded setups I would agree that more RAM is needed but for most home setups I would disagree on the memory requirements... -
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(hopefully) Building a low cost/performance PC-based NAS
Your welcome. Let us know how it goes. Cheers, 00Roush -
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(hopefully) Building a low cost/performance PC-based NAS
SATA drives in my tests were connected to the SATA ports on the motherboard. The NIC is the same one I tested with. Intel PRO/1000 MT PCI. Free if you want to pay shipping. (like $5 for USPS small box) I have 2 desktop versions like the NIC I tested with and one server version that I... -
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(hopefully) Building a low cost/performance PC-based NAS
Hello there! I personally think NAS4Free is a great idea. I have found it provides good performance, uses fairly low resources, and is one of the easiest free NAS OSes to use. SATA controller would probably work just fine. Technically you can run both PCI NIC and PCI SATA controller at the... -
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Server/Nas build reality check
From what I have seen the FreeNAS forums can get pretty opinionated. Especially about hardware requirements. ECC topic seems to always get folks stirred up. My opinion is it all depends on how important your data is to you. In general consumer grade hardware works great until it doesn't... -
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Building a PC-based NAS
Just figured I would chime in and mention NAS4Free as an OS. It actually is the forked version of original FreeNAS. In my testing I have found it provides better performance out of the box and in my opinion the web interface is easier to use. For some reason FreeNAS 8 and 9 versions have not... -
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Intel Dual NICs PCI e in desktop motherboard
I have several Intel Dual NICs that I am using in desktop boards. In total I have 3 cards, 2 are HP NC360T's and one is an actual Intel branded card. All of them work just fine. My main file server here at home has a MSI 890GXM-G65 motherboard that I have tested all the cards in. Then my... -
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WHS 2011 - Splits LSI 12TB
I got WHS 2011 setup in a VM and was able to format a 2.6TB volume and then was able to use it in the WHS dashboard without any issues. My understanding is if you use the WHS dashboard interface to setup and format disks that is when they will be broken up into 2TB chunks (partitions). If... -
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WHS 2011 - Splits LSI 12TB
I am pretty sure once you format your 12TB volume WHS 2011 won't break it apart. I believe it will just warn you that you will not be able to backup the volume using the backup features that are included with WHS 2011 (Server 2008 R2). I will check on this though. It will give me a reason to... -
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WHS 2011 - Splits LSI 12TB
Fyi WHS 2011 is basically Server 2008 R2 except it has stripped down functions and the WHS front end added. Almost the same as how the original WHS was basically a stripped down Server 2003. You can choose to not use the WHS front end and use it like Server 2008 R2 and it would be very similar... -
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WHS 2011 - Splits LSI 12TB
Off the top of my head I wondered if this was related to MBR partitions vs GPT partitions. I think MBR partitions are limited to 2TB. Also I think WHS has a maximum backup size of 2TB. With that WHS 2011 might automatically partition your drive into 2TB chunks so it is easier to manage...