On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Tom Metro tmetro+...@gmail.com wrote:
It seems that either of these needs could be addressed quickly and
fairly cheaply with an off-the-shelf appliance, like:
$140 QNAP TS-231 2-bay
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.aspx?sku=556803
I liked
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 9:38 AM, F. O. Ozbek oz...@gmx.com wrote:
Didn't IBM leave the hardware business entirely (including the servers last
year)?
You probably purchased Lenovo servers labeled as IBM servers.
If Intel architecture, yes.
They were doing the off-shore builds prior to sale, so
On 7/4/2015 9:38 AM, F. O. Ozbek wrote:
Didn't IBM leave the hardware business entirely (including the servers
last year)?
IBM sold the System x business to Lenovo. IBM retains its System z and
Power Systems businesses.
You probably purchased Lenovo servers labeled as IBM servers.
Other
On 07/03/2015 08:26 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
Last year I specced out some high-end compute servers (2 by Xeon 10-core,
384GB) with a pile of storage (80TB) from Dell and IBM. The compute portions
were essentially identical
prices. The Dell storage was 2 x 12-bay SAS storage arrays with SATA
On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 08:26:31PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
Last year I specced out some high-end compute servers (2 by Xeon 10-core,
384GB) with a pile of storage (80TB) from Dell and IBM. The compute portions
were essentially identical prices. The Dell storage was 2 x 12-bay SAS
storage
This is a perennial topic, but I'm in need of some NAS storage and
figured I'd see what the current leanings are of the group.
I haven't yet figured out exactly what my requirements are, but I'm
probably looking to end up with two NAS units for office storage, where
one acts as primary and one as
On 7/3/2015 4:30 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
I plan to build a freenas box. I can get a 24-bay 4U case and build
into it for about the same price as a synology that can only hold half
the disk space and a fraction of the ram..
Neither of which are microservers.
the disk and ram was the vast
.
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From: Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com
To: discuss@blu.org
Subject: [Discuss] NAS: buy vs. build
Date: Fri, Jul 3, 2015 2:28 PM
On 7/3/2015 2:47 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
I'd ask if FreeNAS has been ported to any of them, but given the way
FreeNAS seems to have moved towards
On 7/3/2015 2:47 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
I'd ask if FreeNAS has been ported to any of them, but given the way
FreeNAS seems to have moved towards requiring more enterprise hardware
(ECC RAM, and lots of it), that seems unlikely.
ECC RAM is a requirement for full ZFS integrity, and lots of it is
