[darkpuppet]

hardk0re,May 14 2009, 12:26 AM Wrote:I just finished my new home NAS box with freenas.  Not the largest most robust system out there, but i'm more comfortable with hardware failure now.  The DNS-323 I had before was great, I didn't spend more than 30 minutes and I had tested drive failures, etc.  Setup email notifications, user access and was done.

With FreeNAS theres just too much to play around with.

Intel Atom D945GCLF2 (dual core atom)
1 GB DDR2 Ram
2 Seagate 1TB Drives
1gb USB Drive for FreeNAS
Small ITX case with room for 3 drives.


Rather than using software raid.  I am just using rsync to sync one drive to another.  Pretty much same as a mirror, to me it just seems so very easy if there's a drive failure to recover when things are setup this way.

I've got many more hours of playing around with this.  Anybody play with openfiler and compare with freenas?
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open filer doesn't seem to support UPnP services (without pay-for updates anyways)... and doesn't support ZFS. It also looks like it's a much more basic system with little support and a lot of unknowns -- I don't even know what OS it's based on.

I'd stick with freeNAS. If you're not interested in ZFS, stick with 0.69 and you should be fine.