On 10/30/12 10:09 AM, Julian Zottl wrote:
I know the topic is ready built NAS's, but if you all want to build something yourselves, I've built a couple of NAS's/SAN's with COTS hardware. For OS's I've used OpenFiler(7/10), FreeNAS(7/10), and Nexenta(8/10). For hardware, everything from 4 to 24 drive SAS controllers. These are mostly to support ESX servers through iSCSI connections, but FreeNAS/Nexenta supports CIFS/NFS/FTP/RSYNC/WebDAV too.
Also note that the linux ZFS native project is quite mature now so you no longer have to use a Solaris variant or FreeBSD to get ZFS support. Ubuntu + zfs + iscsi is quite easy to setup
as well.
