Network Attached Storage News, Reviews, and Information
This post has been around for a while, but there is a nice writeup at techradar.com about how to make a FreeNAS server using the ZFS file system. The post has good screen shots and deals with the issue of having old hard drives with different sizes, yet wanting to use them all for as an efficient a storage pool as possible:
Read more »The important part of creating your storage pool is working out how to arrange your drives for best effect.
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I came across a long and detailed post along with a discussion thread about building a NAS. The author goes into great detail about the choices he made for hardware and software.
The post is called "Sam's NAS project powered by Unraid". He includes some pros and cons of various software choices including Flexraid, FreeNAS and of course, Unraid.…
Read more »Another of the type of posts I like to read - this time over at "The Diary of an IT Man". In the post, Nicolas Roussi discusses building a server and player for media files in his home and talks about the hardware and software choices. Although starting out with FreeNAS, he eventually settled on Ubuntu server with ZFS as the file system:
Read more »So I saw that ZFS is natively supported in Ubuntu.
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I came across a (new to me) project that continues the FreeNAS version 7 line. The new project is called NAS4Free. The differences between this project and FreeNAS are summarized:
Read more »This project is a continuation of FreeNAS 7 series project. FreeNAS 8 is based on nanoBSD where as NAS4Free is based on FreeBSD 9.x, hence the name change.
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Samkear.com has a nice post complete with parts lists and photos about building a small FreeNAS storage device. The writer specifically compares his build to a commercial build available at http://www.ixsystems.com/storage/ix/home-office-storage/freenas-mini.html, the "FreeNAS™ Mini".
Some interesting hardware choices in the do it yourself build:
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Form Factor 4 Bay Mini ITX Chassis with 4 Hot Swap Bays Processor Low Power Intel Dual Core Memory 8GB DDR3 (2 x 4GB) Network Onboard Gigabit Raid Support RAID-Z/RAID-Z2 Storage Capacity Available in 4/8/12TB Power Supply 200 Watt Dimensions 8.5″W x 12.5 “D x 8.0 “H Parts List
Below is a list of all the components you will need to build the mini NAS.
I came across a nice little post that is in one of my favorite categories - a post about building a NAS device for backup from scratch using parts. The writer intends this post to be the start of a series in which he will also examine several NAS software options:
Read more »We are going to try to build a redundant server which cost less than $500 (at least that’s what the Drobo costs without hard drives) in parts and consume less than 55 watts.
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Catn.com has the beginning of a series comparing the three NAS operating systems - Openindiana, Nexantastor and FreeNAS. All three NAS operating systems feature availability of the ZFS file system which some believe is perfect for NAS devices.
This part of the series describes the three possibilities and then concentrates on FreeNAS with some speed testing supplied.…
Read more »I'ts not often that one of the old school "mainstream" publications gives any significant space to one of the free NAS distributions that allow you to turn a PC into a NAS. PCWorld has just posted an article that outlines how to do just that with an old PC and FreenNAS.…
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I came across a nice little post about building a NAS from scratch using an AMD E-350. The author decided to use Centos for the operating system:
Read more »In the beginning I was pondering whether to choose FreeNAS or CentOS. Both are probably good choices, but since I don’t consider ZFS as the holy grail of file systems and I’m a passionate Fedora user the final choice was the CentOS 6.2 minimal spin.
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Scribd has an interesting article with a comprehensive guide (with many screen shots) showing how to setup a FreeNAS NAS with the ability to access your files from anywhere that has internet access.
This guide is somewhat mis-titled because although it covers how to setup internet access to your FreeNAS device, it also covers how to install FreeNAS, configure shares etc.…
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