Anyone have any experience with these? Kinda seem too good to be true. Looking for a small appliance (low power, no/low hassle) like replacement for my Dlink DNS-323. The 323 is great but I need more disk and better performance (currently 12-15MB/s on Gig-E,jumbo frames).
An HP MicroServer with 4x2TB in 2xRAID-1 (and booting FreeNAS from a decent USB stick) seems like it might fit the bill.
Comments, recommendations?
I'll still use the 323 (i have lots of junk on it and the UPnP/DNLA, iTunes server etc work great) but some bulkier storage to hold ISOs of all my DVDs are why I'm heading down this road.
I haven't used one myself but recently listened to a favorable review of the unit on the latest episode of the Ubuntu UK podcast: http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/. Additionally, the fellow from the podcast has written up a fairly detailed blog about his use of the unit, complete with photos from the in & outside of the unit: http://barrenfrozenwasteland.com/?q=taxonomy/term/9/0
Maybe you could do a demo at a MUUG meeting if you get one.
Kelly
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Sean Cody sean@tinfoilhat.ca wrote:
Anyone have any experience with these? Kinda seem too good to be true. Looking for a small appliance (low power, no/low hassle) like replacement for my Dlink DNS-323. The 323 is great but I need more disk and better performance (currently 12-15MB/s on Gig-E,jumbo frames).
An HP MicroServer with 4x2TB in 2xRAID-1 (and booting FreeNAS from a decent USB stick) seems like it might fit the bill.
Comments, recommendations?
I'll still use the 323 (i have lots of junk on it and the UPnP/DNLA, iTunes server etc work great) but some bulkier storage to hold ISOs of all my DVDs are why I'm heading down this road.
-- Sean (mobile) P.S. The Patriot Box and the WD-Live HD will play ISOs of DVDs _WITH_ menus. _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
This QNAP server is not much more than the HP, but has very good software. Saves a lot of your valuable time setting up. A co-worker has 3 of them.
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Kelly Leveille kel@kelweb.ca wrote:
I haven't used one myself but recently listened to a favorable review of the unit on the latest episode of the Ubuntu UK podcast: http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/. Additionally, the fellow from the podcast has written up a fairly detailed blog about his use of the unit, complete with photos from the in & outside of the unit: http://barrenfrozenwasteland.com/?q=taxonomy/term/9/0
Maybe you could do a demo at a MUUG meeting if you get one.
Kelly
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Sean Cody sean@tinfoilhat.ca wrote:
Anyone have any experience with these? Kinda seem too good to be true. Looking for a small appliance (low power, no/low hassle) like replacement for my Dlink DNS-323. The 323 is great but I need more disk and better performance (currently 12-15MB/s on Gig-E,jumbo frames).
An HP MicroServer with 4x2TB in 2xRAID-1 (and booting FreeNAS from a decent USB stick) seems like it might fit the bill.
Comments, recommendations?
I'll still use the 323 (i have lots of junk on it and the UPnP/DNLA, iTunes server etc work great) but some bulkier storage to hold ISOs of all my DVDs are why I'm heading down this road.
-- Sean (mobile) P.S. The Patriot Box and the WD-Live HD will play ISOs of DVDs _WITH_ menus. _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
Er, here's the link: http://ncix.com/products/?sku=58630&vpn=TS-412&manufacture=QNAP%20Sy...
My co-worker has 3 QNAPs; I'm not sure which model exactly, but I think they're 4-bay ones.
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Kevin McGregor kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.comwrote:
This QNAP server is not much more than the HP, but has very good software. Saves a lot of your valuable time setting up. A co-worker has 3 of them.
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Kelly Leveille kel@kelweb.ca wrote:
I haven't used one myself but recently listened to a favorable review of the unit on the latest episode of the Ubuntu UK podcast: http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/. Additionally, the fellow from the podcast has written up a fairly detailed blog about his use of the unit, complete with photos from the in & outside of the unit: http://barrenfrozenwasteland.com/?q=taxonomy/term/9/0
Maybe you could do a demo at a MUUG meeting if you get one.
Kelly
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Sean Cody sean@tinfoilhat.ca wrote:
Anyone have any experience with these? Kinda seem too good to be true. Looking for a small appliance (low power, no/low hassle) like replacement for my Dlink DNS-323. The 323 is great but I need more disk and better performance (currently 12-15MB/s on Gig-E,jumbo frames).
An HP MicroServer with 4x2TB in 2xRAID-1 (and booting FreeNAS from a decent USB stick) seems like it might fit the bill.
Comments, recommendations?
I'll still use the 323 (i have lots of junk on it and the UPnP/DNLA, iTunes server etc work great) but some bulkier storage to hold ISOs of all my DVDs are why I'm heading down this road.
-- Sean (mobile) P.S. The Patriot Box and the WD-Live HD will play ISOs of DVDs _WITH_ menus. _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
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