DIY NAS review with an HP Microserver and FreeNAS

2014-05-08 Thread Mark Komarinski
(I've had this in my draft mailbox for quite a while after I promised sending this. It's getting rather long, so I'll send this and then open up for questions. tl;dr: I like it.) So there's really two parts to this review. First the hardware. I started with the HP ProLiant G7 N54L

Re: DIY NAS review with an HP Microserver and FreeNAS

2014-05-08 Thread Tom Buskey
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Mark Komarinski mkomarin...@wayga.orgwrote: (I've had this in my draft mailbox for quite a while after I promised sending this. It's getting rather long, so I'll send this and then open up for questions. tl;dr: I like it.) So there's really two parts to this

Re: DIY NAS review with an HP Microserver and FreeNAS

2014-05-08 Thread John Abreau
I built one of these a few years ago, back when the N40L was the current model, and it's worked like a charm. I configured FreeNAS to use ZFS mirroring with 2 drives. Best NAS I've ever used at home. On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Mark Komarinski mkomarin...@wayga.orgwrote: (I've had this in