On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> wrote: > All good points and well taken. > > The DIY NAS I am looking to build would use a mini-ATX board and a fan > less CPU. Asus and a couple other people make these. At that rate with 4-6 > drives that can spin down when idle power would max out at maybe 40-50 > watts. >
Sounds good. I was envisioning a repurposed computer, but that makes sense, Fan control would be interesting, those drives will generate a lot of heat. > One thing I failed to mention was the ability to use ZFS. I consider it > superior when it comes to data integrity, and it's a lot more efficient > than other formats from what I understand. One I agree with ZFS if you can. Very CPU and RAM intensive, as I understand it, but it is a good alternative to proprietary enterprise storage. > drawback I do see is that FreeNAS and ZFS don't allow for changes to the > array after the fact without some serious command line and under the hood > work. That's not a big deal to me, as I It will never be big enough... That said, you only have to go under the hood every few years, so I'm sure you'll be okay. > FreeNAS also allows snapshots, which I haven't seen in a consumer or > prosumer grade NAS at a realistic price point. > I'd have thought anything that supported ZFS would have snapshots. I have no idea how many NAS systems support ZFS, though, since it would require a pretty beefy controller. > I'm not totally convinced this is the way to go, but I'm leaning that way. > I may choose to accumulate the pieces over the next few months as finances > permit and have a go at it. > It sounds like a nice system, and the incremental acquisition model is a good one. I am just moving my stuff to embedded where I can - I even gave up ZFS for FAT32 because I'm too lazy to maintain another computer. By the time I get home I'd rather work on the SDL if I have free time. :) Best, Tim _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
