A modular, extensible DIY NAS
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A modular, extensible DIY NAS
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Re: A modular, extensible DIY NAS
#2Those HP microservers are popular but have issues
IME + Intel CPUS
No 6th bay for proper Raid 5/6 system
They take too long to release a new model
No support for 2.5/5/10gbe onboard
No support for Ryzen APU
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#3zfs works great, you have a lot of benefits on a nas like snapshots, scrubbing,...
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#4> I hear and read conflicting testimonies about ZFS which supposedly handles data corruption better and will give it a try at some point. For now, I use md5sum to create and verify checksums of my backup .tar.gz archives and parchive to create error recovery files. I’ve written about parchive before and remain to this day a dedicated fan.
I’m very surprised you went through the trouble of building such an amazing NAS and skipped ZFS! Definitely give it a try. It’s especially useful for combatting disk rot. Not to mention how easy it is to setup and use.
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#5I don't understand why anyone would do this instead of running FreeNAS. It comes with everything you need including ZFS pools.
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#6I don't understand why anyone would do this instead of running FreeNAS. It comes with everything you need including ZFS pools.
Because you can't easily change the size of the disks one at a time. How would you migrate from 4 x 4TB to 4 x 6TB disks by buying one disk at a time?
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#7I don't understand why anyone would do this instead of running FreeNAS. It comes with everything you need including ZFS pools.
Because you can't easily change the size of the disks one at a time. How would you migrate from 4 x 4TB to 4 x 6TB disks by buying one disk at a time?
You replace each disk in turn, then grow the pool, right? You don't get the increased capacity until you're done, but still workable.
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#8The problem with extensibility here is the fact that the enclosure is limited to four drives. Growing the capacity is quite hard but probably necessary considering the RAID 6 only gives you two HDDs worth of usable storage.
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#9Qnap OS Hero Edition [1], They said it will be coming to consumer version soon. Hopefully we will soon be able to buy a consumer NAS with ZFS without too much fiddling.
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#10While I'm quite new to the DIY NAS, I have been running a FreeNAS instance for about a year and finally decided to switch to Ansible-NAS[1] about 6 months ago.
It has all the features I'd want and seamlessly supports ZFS as my filesystem without standing in the way (since it's all just Ansible playbooks)