Recent content by Terry Kennedy

Unless you want to build up your skills as a NAS builder, I'd suggest going with one of the commercial units (normally I recommend Synology units for most people). You take the system out of the box, install the drives, power it up and you're good to go. You've got both commercial vendor support...

Since you're moving to Comcast, take a look at their list of supported modems. I'm using a SB6141 as the 6183 wasn't out yet.

As mentioned by azazel1024, Cat 6A is a pain to deal with and likely overkill for this application. I can understand having a spool of cable, but you also need fancy termination tools and oddball connectors. For Cat 5 / 5E you can purchase a crimper and connectors at your local hardware store...

All of the 18xx's are 10/100 only. 2801/2811 are 10/100, 2821/2851 are GigE. 38xx are all GigE (one combo RJ45/SFP, one RJ45). [Trivia - the 2811 actually has GigE Ethernet chips but not the extra pieces needed to get GigE at the connector.] The 1811 is rated for a maximum performance of...

True, but I would have expected to see more 10GbE offerings in the "prosumer" and SMB areas. Netgear has shown that a reasonable 10GbE switch can be profitable at under $100/port. But as soon as you look at the next tier up (Dell, Supermicro, etc.) you're looking at $350+/port (for example, Dell...

When you get to the point where you want to learn the Cisco 1800, feel free to ask here or drop me a PM. "Classic" Cisco routers tend to be a bit under-powered CPU wise when you use advanced features, but since they have pretty much the same configuration commands as modern Cisco models, they...

The electrical rates here are simply ruinous - I have a friend who lives in a 1-bedroom apartment with gas kitchen appliances and aside from the normal lights, tiny A/C, etc. all he has is a laptop PC and a flat screen TV, and his bill is nearly $100 a month.

They aren't my pools, just on systems where I've done consulting. And yes, they're bigger than 100TB, but the customer doesn't want the exact size, etc. mentioned. I will say that those servers are in the Alexia Top 50. So you're using ZFS. I'm just surprised at what I took to be...

As I mentioned above, there is coordinated open source development of ZFS and pools are importable on different operating systems as long as the system doing the importing supports all of the features that the pool was created with. A feature flags mechanism was added quite some time ago to...

I'm not sure what you mean here - you can replace 1 drive at a time (or 1 in each raidz member if you like being adventurous) with larger drives and once all the drives have been replaced, you have a larger pool with more storage. You could also add additional raidz's to the pool and get more...

Nope, composed just for you. Well, this would be a good time to look at your upstream/downstream signal levels and ratio of good to correctable/uncorrectable codewords, so you will know what things look like when it is working and compare them with what happens when it isn't working properly.

Say what? :confused: Sun open-sourced ZFS under the CDDL. Oracle later took their ball and went home, but that does not change the rights and responsibilities granted under the CDDL - it just means that later changes to ZFS by Oracle are not available to non-Oracle customers. Independent...

Don't you just hate it when you compose a long series of detailed replies to someone who turns out to be a hit-and-run poster who never came back after posting their question? :mad:

On any version of FreeBSD that is still supported, ZFS is fine (I have pools up to about 150TB). Fixes and improvements that come from upstream (illumos) are integrated pretty rapidly. The closer you are to the latest FreeBSD version, the more likely enhancements will be applied - older but...

[continued] You should now have an idea about your signal levels and packet loss and will be in better shape to talk to Comcast support. And you'll sound technical enough that they might hand your call off to someone technical, too. When you talk to the Comcast tech (the support people...