Author Topic: So it's that time again. NAS Solutions  (Read 1378 times)

Valiant

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So it's that time again. NAS Solutions
« on: 09 August, 2017, 02:17:12 am »
At the moment I have a couple of 6 bay Promise SmartStors. I get about 60MB/s transfer speed over the network. But given the age of the units I'm thinking of moving over to something else. I had a feeling that if the hardware went down I might be screwed. So I'm liking the idea of software based ie FreeNAS/UnRaid et all.


Anyone got recommendations on which and what hardware? Due to constant upgrades I do have a bunch of 2/3/4/6/8TB WD NAS drives which makes UnRaid seem like a good idea.
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Re: So it's that time again. NAS Solutions
« Reply #1 on: 09 August, 2017, 07:22:23 am »
I've found Nas4Free to be very robust and agnostic to hardware changes over the past 5 years of usage. I use ZFS2 and ZFS3 to provide robust and duplicated data storage for Mrs freeflows digital photography.


Nas4Free doesn't support unraid.


You may need to do some reading to determine if you prefer to run with normal or error correcting ram.






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Re: So it's that time again. NAS Solutions
« Reply #2 on: 09 August, 2017, 07:54:16 am »
i always wonder what the hell do businesses fill up their huge disks with??

The bible is 1.6MB
"full install" size of  Encyclopædia Britannica is 2.8GB

I suspect a lot of it is junk

Valiant

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Re: So it's that time again. NAS Solutions
« Reply #3 on: 09 August, 2017, 08:09:03 am »
4k 3d HDR pr0n init.
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Re: So it's that time again. NAS Solutions
« Reply #4 on: 10 August, 2017, 01:56:32 pm »
Billions of tedious arse covering emails and memos.

You don't give many clues on capacity and budget but I've found http://www.westekuk.com/ to be pretty good for the money.
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Re: So it's that time again. NAS Solutions
« Reply #5 on: 10 August, 2017, 02:01:04 pm »
i always wonder what the hell do businesses fill up their huge disks with??

Duplicates of emails with Base64 encoded PDFs full of badly scanned images of text.

(Unless they're doing things involving proper data, in which case you can add that to the inevitable collection of the above.)

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Re: So it's that time again. NAS Solutions
« Reply #6 on: 14 August, 2017, 11:51:21 pm »
Maybe not what you're looking for but
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