[Tfug] NAS suggestions

[Bexley Hall]

Hi Angus,

--- On Fri, 10/19/12, Angus Scott-Fleming <angussf at geoapps.com> wrote:

> On 13 Oct 2012 at 20:09, Dean Jones  wrote:
> 
> > Check out FreeNAS.
> > 
> > Uses ZFS on freebsd.  The OS runs off usb stick, so all drives are for
> > data.  There are some caveats with ZFS like ECC memory is a must, and
> > it loves large amount of memory.  But the previously mentioned HP
> > microservers run it well, just max the ram.
> 
> Or NAS4Free, a fork of FreeNAS.  Current version of FreeNAS no
> longer supports encryption of the drives.

My current thinking is just to build a stripped down FreeBSD
system without all these fancy bells and whistles.  E.g., I
don't need iSCSI support, a web interface, (soft-)RAID, etc.
All those things eat up resources (as well as contribute to
decreased reliability) when all I really need is just to
push/pull bytes to/from individual files.  Why make more
of a maintenance headache than I really need?  <frown>