NAS suggestions

Douglas J Hunley doug.hunley at gmail.com
Sat Sep 21 11:11:47 PDT 2013


On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Steve Jardine <sjardine at acm.org> wrote:

> All,
>
>   I am looking for inexpensive hardware (motherboard) that can be plugged
> into my network (GbE) that I can use as a network hard drive. I would like
> a good chipset to talk to a late model SATA drive that is fast, and one
> that has good Ethernet characteristics. I am having a lot of trouble with
> the 990FX/Sb950 chipset.
>
>   Basically, I am looking for a good platform to make a homemade NAS using
> Linux of course.
>
>   Any ideas or suggestions?
>

 http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Hardware_Recommendations

FWIW, FreeNAs is pretty sweet. Also look at ZFS pretty hard. It's amazing.
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