I recommend nas4free over freenas. It's the continuation of freenas. It's very likely what I'll be running on my nas when I finally get time to build it.<div><br></div><div>Also, I second David's recommendation if you need anything more than storage on the box.<br clear="all">
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<br><br><div name="sig_8ad2116b40" style="margin:0pt"></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 6:05 PM, nick pitlosh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nickpitlosh@gmail.com" target="_blank">nickpitlosh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">i second the freebsd of freenas<br>
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On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 6:42 PM, David L. Willson <<a href="mailto:DLWillson@thegeek.nu">DLWillson@thegeek.nu</a>> wrote:<br>
> I have used and liked OpenFiler, but the article I Google'd up seems to<br>
> indicate that FreeNAS is better for your application:<br>
> <a href="http://geekyprojects.com/general/openfiler-vs-freenas/" target="_blank">http://geekyprojects.com/general/openfiler-vs-freenas/</a><br>
><br>
> My favorite solution for this problem, any time performance isn't absolutely<br>
> the only concern, is still a general-purpose distribution plus configure the<br>
> services you want: NFS, Samba, iSCSI, drbd, or whatever.<br>
><br>
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> My project for the weekend, such as it is, is to put more of the hardware<br>
> around the apartment to constructive use. I was looking at FreeNAS. And it<br>
> occurred to me I could ask the club for alternative storage theme<br>
> distributions? Essentially the goal is to create a server I can backup to.<br>
><br>
> Bean<br>
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