Building a cheap NAS with FreeBSD 8 + ZFS
reddit / BSD

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einstiien · 2010-04-07 02:03

dead url?

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devslashnull · 2010-04-07 02:36

works fine here

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einstiien · 2010-04-07 03:07

Weird, it 404'd on me earlier but now its fine.

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Tad2much · 2010-04-07 06:09

I'd be more interested in what kind of hardware he used to actually
get things going.  I've been thinking of setting something like this
up, but haven't had the motivation to research the hardware specs I'd
need yet.

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eleitl · 2010-04-07 15:39

Use NexentaStor instead, if you have less than 12 TByte data.

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Ironfist · 2010-04-13 02:03

For anything over 4 drives you'll want something like a Supermicro
server chassis with hot swap bays.  I found one with 8 hot swap bays
for $600 on newegg and that's just the case alone.

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kompulsive · 2010-05-24 08:19

call it cheap if you want, but there's no other way i'd rather run a
file server! (yeah, yeah, yeah, i've heard of btrfs! it's too young
still :p)