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

[Braddock Gaskill]

Yes I agree it doesn't seem like that great a deal.  I just bought 8 TB (2
x 4TB drives) for under $350.  So you are paying for the FreeNAS hardware -
maybe that's worth it I don't know.

-braddock

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Matthew Campbell <dvdmatt at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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