[clue] File Server - URAID or FREENAS

[Tom Martin]

Sorry about that this is kind of new to me.
Which FileServer software do you like between Unraid and FreeNAS? I looked at 2 or 3 others sorry don't remember the names off hand.
 
This is being installed on a USB drive on a file server, so the OS in on USB and memory. ALL drives are set up in a raid 50 configuration. With the 3Ware set-up done during boot you can set up and configure raid. I guess that would be Raid on Firmware. The 3Ware card did not allow the UnRaid to see the drives.
 
Yes I have 2 dedicated 3U rack mount file servers, both set up the exact same same everything including 12 drives each. Plus I have two older Dell 1600 Xeon servers that I will be setting up with ????? not sure yet. I am starting to look at Debian, FreeBSD, RedHat, CentOS, Apache. Along with Sorry (Windows Server 2003)... This is really a Test Lab I am building in my basement to learn on, Mixing Windows along with Linux. 
 
The second file server will be set up to back up my home computer files, movies and music archives, those computers are all currently running windows XP. I likes the FreeNAS because arfter plugging in the USB drive (4GB) and booting the computer it was up and could be seen on the network in less than 1/2 hour.
 
Sorry I was not clear on my questions, I may have missed one to......
Thanks
 


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From: Yaverot <Yaverot at computermail.net>
To: Tom Martin <toms_jeep at yahoo.com>; CLUE's mailing list <clue at cluedenver.org> 
Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2012 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: [clue] File Server - URAID or FREENAS


--- toms_jeep at yahoo.com wrote:

I am looking to set up a file server at home, I have narrowed my search down to UNRAID or FREENAS. I have tryed UNRAID but it did not work with the 3WARE raid card that is installed in the server.
Server Details; 
Intel MB- Xeon quad core, 3WARE 12 port card, 12 500GB SATA drives currently set at Raid 50. I would like to set one up with UNRAID and one with FREENAS but did not want to spend the $$$ on a new Raid card if it would not be worth it.

--- yaverot replies:
In trying to figure out which questions to ask you, I'm trying to figure out which issues you have.  So my questions will be more disjointed than normal.

unRAID (lime-technology.com) or FreeNAS -> What features attracted you to these options, which options have you ruled out?

didn't work with current RAID card -> Does the card provide _any_ drives to the OS? (Driver issue) Is it set as JBOD for the OS to do RAIDing (each drive seen separately), or is it hardware/firmware RAID (OS sees one drive that is actually all disks)?  Which do you want?

set up one with ... and one with -> Do you have multiple servers, or intend multiple servers, or am I misinterpreting this?

Is/will it only be a file server, or will it be doing other things (bittorrent, email)?
How much RAM does/will it have?

And a question I'm failing myself: Once consolidated to the main server, how will you be backing that up? (Actually I do have an answer with how, I don't have a target system or a physical where for it.)
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