<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>-braddock</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Matthew Campbell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dvdmatt@gmail.com" target="_blank">dvdmatt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Good morning Scott,<br><br>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.<br><br></div>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.<br><br></div>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).<br><br></div>Matt<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr">---------<br><b style="color:rgb(51,102,102)">Matthew Campbell</b><br><font size="1">Storage and Cloud Strategy<br>Office of the CTO<br></font><font face="Verdana" size="1"><br></font><b><span style="color:rgb(51,102,102)">Kaiser Permanente</span></b><br><font size="1">99 S. Oakland<br>Pasadena, CA 91101<br></font><br><font size="1"><a>626-564-7228</a> (office)<br></font><font face="Verdana" size="1"><a>8-338-7228</a> (tie-line)<br><a value="+18186918895">818-314-9897</a> (mobile phone)<br>Green Center 3-North, 031W29</font><font size="1"><br></font>---------<br><b><a style="color:rgb(51,102,102)" href="http://kp.org/thrive" target="_blank">kp.org/thrive</a></b><br></div></div></div><div><div class="h5">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:33 AM, Scott Packard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spackard@gmail.com" target="_blank">spackard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">A FreeNAS box with 12TB capacity, new $1625, one used via Amazon<br>
Warehouse for $1116.74.<br>
<br>
Seems like a decent deal for a plug-n-play solution. IX Solutions<br>
takes FreeNAS and puts it in a ready-to-work product. Seems to offer<br>
some free training with it.<br>
<br>
I'm not sure how many of you work with zfs. Most of the time I work<br>
with it via CLI only,<br>
so it can be a bit of a learning curve that way. If somebody can<br>
successfully hide<br>
it with a good GUI it would be better. I don't know how well FreeNAS<br>
has been able to hide<br>
it with their GUI, but it seems for the last year or two a lot of<br>
FreeNAS fans are posting<br>
opinions on Slickdeals, so it would seem to be popular (moreso than Nexenta).<br>
<br>
Regards, Scott<br>
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