[PLUG] NAS System suggestions

Vedanta Teacher orevedantateacher at gmail.com
Wed Jun 22 16:52:23 UTC 2016


This may or may not help... but ixsystems sells a FreeNAS Mimi
with 4 bays for $999 @ https://www.ixsystems.com/freenas-mini/
I've never used the FreeNAS OS myself .

Blessings,
Paul W.

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 9:04 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
wrote:

> I need a NAS system which includes a two-bay enclosure capable of
> holding two 6TB drives, and I want to start out with just one 6TB
> drive. From my research so far I have determined that Western
> Digital red drives are the best for this application, so the WD
> WD60EFRX drive is at the top of my list. Suggestions for alternatives
> are welcome.
>
> The enclosure, however, is a point of major confusion. It's amazing how
> little actual information manufacturers web site give you. I'm sick of
> reading how many photos of my loved ones I can place on the device.
>
> Since I'm leaning toward the WD drive above, WD enclosures would be
> my first choice. Western Digital sells enclosures, but as far as I can
> tell they only sell them as a unit with drives, i.e., if I buy a two-bay
> enclosure it will come with two drives.
>
> My major confusions about the enclosures are about all the various
> software features that they come with. My house is wired with Cat6
> ethernet, but all my computers are Linux only. None of the web sites
> tell me much about the software on the enclosure. But maybe I just need
> to plan to nuke the software the enclosure comes with and replace it
> with open source bits.
>
> I need some education.
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