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freenas ss4200 plan
after reading for a few days I may move away from the ss4200 for one simple reason, it only has 1 ethernet port since this is a DIY I'm getting quite experimental and pretty demanding I suppose I want it to do everything freenas will do, i.e. media server, itunes, and iscsi too...however... -
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freenas ss4200 plan
for this particular NAS I'm building the virtualization stuff is very low key, just some dev stuff really, in fact, those are currently running on just a low-end dell vostro with a couple 500GB HDs in raid1 (the onboard raid too, which is never great) and I have freenas running on an old... -
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freenas ss4200 plan
Yeah, I read through the comments where people were saying it was quiet. Where are you putting your drives? You obviously won't fit 4 3.5" drives in there ;) -
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freenas ss4200 plan
Well I'm still kicking it around, the thing is, I really want to beef up performance from what I have now, especially since I will be using iSCSI and VMs in addition to the media/itunes and storage I'm using my current FreeNAS for, so the question becomes which OS to run on the SS4200 if I pick... -
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freenas ss4200 plan
That's an excellent price, if I wasn't concerned about noise and didn't want a tower type format I would probably jump on it...I could actually live with a RM format but the noise I couldn't, SuperMicro are notoriously loud but I use them for lots of other stuff in server rooms and they make... -
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freenas ss4200 plan
well the ss4200 review is old and when I went to the nas charts I didn't even see it listed anymore so I couldn't really compare the speeds I wouldn't be interested in running the OS it comes with though, that's why I was looking at freenas, that's what I run now However, I just saw that... -
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freenas ss4200 plan
I currently have freenas running on an old computer, booting off a thumb drive with 2 TB drives raid 1 (geom mirror). I was thinking about buying a QNAP 4 bay or something because I really want to consolidate things here...keep current NAS for file storage, media streaming, itunes but start...