<p>I was wondering something similar. Fry's has AMD E350 CPU/mobo with 4/6 sata for $80-$100. Figured at that price <u>I'd</u> build myself a nice low power storage cluster. I dread having everything in 1 machine, so I figure having 3 machines "raided" over my network would be good / fun. </p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On May 8, 2012 7:45 PM, "matti" <<a href="mailto:mathew_2000@yahoo.com">mathew_2000@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi,<br>
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So I am looking at an affordable storage solution for a small business environment.<br>
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Curious what others have experienced in this arena<br>
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Digging about wondering what would be the best solution on<br>
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a budget and noticed a few interesting references:<br>
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freeNAS vs Open Solaris ZFS: ( this is from 2010.. so it maybe a bit<br>
dated.. freeNAS is based on FreeBSD and the newer versions should<br>
do better with ZFS,,also note they use iSCSI )<br>
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<a href="http://www.zfsbuild.com/2010/09/10/freenas-vs-opensolaris-zfs-benchmarks/" target="_blank">http://www.zfsbuild.com/2010/09/10/freenas-vs-opensolaris-zfs-benchmarks/</a><br>
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Hmm... Nexenta OS wonder how good that is...<br>
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A few more references:<br>
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<a href="http://www.stringliterals.com/?p=58" target="_blank">http://www.stringliterals.com/?p=58</a><br>
<a href="http://www.stringliterals.com/?p=77" target="_blank">http://www.stringliterals.com/?p=77</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.zfsbuild.com/" target="_blank">http://www.zfsbuild.com/</a><br>
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Open Storage Summit has a number of videos online<br>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/OpenStorageSummit/videos" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/user/OpenStorageSummit/videos</a><br>
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thanks<br>
matti<br>
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