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Looking for FreeNAS experts
you shouldn't need to install any drivers. Just set the LSI card up t use the drives as JBOD and use ZFS to handle your "RAID" stuff. Freenas has SMART monitoring you have to configure it to email alerts, etc however ive found that that works just fine. -
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RAID Card that allows you to add more drives?
multiple options This is one of those situations where the old standard reply of "it depends" comes into play. 3 questions: 1) what is your budget? 2) what is the use of this nas device what are you sharing out, etc? 3) how large of a system do you want this solution to scale to... -
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Cube case with handle
Hello, I remember some years ago when everyone was making those "cube cases" someone making a sff cube case with a handle on the top. I do a bit of IT consulting and want to build a portable storage appliance that i can take with me to customers sites that i can backup servers or vm's to. so... -
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SATA Multipliers
Im in the process of piecing together a new storage system for my house, houses mostly media files. Currently my setup is Open Filer with a iscsi lun's mapped to a server 2008 host, and to a white-box esxi host for testing. RAID is handled at the SW layer using 6 1TB Seagate drives. What im...