[lug] NAS - OpenNAS, FreeNAS, NAS4Free, or COTS?

[Dan Ferris]

Just an FYI, as I said before, the Synology is probably cheaper than a
properly configured FreeNAS.

On 12/08/2014 11:44 AM, Quentin Hartman wrote:
> I have to just put in a plug for a Synology device. They are pretty well
> bullet proof and super easy to maintain. If you need to do anything
> weird they are linux based, but out of the box they are very capable.
> They are more expensive up front than rolling your own, but inexpensive
> enough that the difference is more than made up for by the time savings
> in most cases. I have a couple at the office, and use one for general
> NAS / file sharing stuff, and the other as a backup destination. They
> are great.
> 
> also re RAID-5, in my experience, most of the problems with RAID-5 are
> largely theoretical, until you get up to raid sets with about 10 disks
> or more. I've never had problems with sets smaller than that, in terms
> performance, reliability, or recovery time. If budget is a concern, and
> you are using a 4-5 disk array, RAID-5 with a single hot spare (or even
> without if the data is reconstruct-able and an array failure would be
> annoying but not catastrophic)  makes a lot of sense in my opinion.
> 
> Q
> 
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com
> <mailto:orion at cora.nwra.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 12/05/2014 10:25 PM, Glenn English wrote:
>     >
>     > On Dec 5, 2014, at 8:26 PM, Jed S. Baer <blug at jbaer.cotse.net <mailto:blug at jbaer.cotse.net>> wrote:
>     >
>     >> any particular
>     >> thoughts?
>     >
>     > I've used Amanda on Linux with tape for years (I'm told it works with disks now). CLI, cron driven here, but rock solid.
>     >
> 
>     Amanda is very useful for when you have more data to backup than you
>     can do in
>     one backup run, and when the data is fairly compressible.  But modern
>     rsync/snapshot systems probably have an edge on being able to keep
>     lots of
>     revisions depending on rate of data change.
> 
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