[SGVLUG] Tempting 12TB FreeNAS storage box on Amazon Warehouse, $1116.74

[Matthew Campbell]

Good morning Scott,

The WD 6TB Reds are going for $260 without looking hard.  That puts a 12TB
NAS with no protection at $700 or so if you use an old computer you have
lying around (or a $35 Raspberry Pi if you don't have high SLAs around
streaming video performance).  With protection you can do a 4X4TB RAID5 3+1
for about the same price at twice the power draw.

I like to build my own for efficiency and the art of learning what goes
into a box.  In the end there is not really that much to learn and the
learning is half the fun.

I agree that if you are just looking for a plug and play solution this box
is a reasonable approach (and I have heard great things about FreeNAS).

Matt


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On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:33 AM, Scott Packard <spackard at gmail.com> wrote:

> A FreeNAS box with 12TB capacity, new $1625, one used via Amazon
> Warehouse for $1116.74.
>
> Seems like a decent deal for a plug-n-play solution.  IX Solutions
> takes FreeNAS and puts it in a ready-to-work product.  Seems to offer
> some free training with it.
>
> I'm not sure how many of you work with zfs.  Most of the time I work
> with it via CLI only,
> so it can be a bit of a learning curve that way.  If somebody can
> successfully hide
> it with a good GUI it would be better.  I don't know how well FreeNAS
> has been able to hide
> it with their GUI, but it seems for the last year or two a lot of
> FreeNAS fans are posting
> opinions on Slickdeals, so it would seem to be popular (moreso than
> Nexenta).
>
> Regards, Scott
>
>
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