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I bought a ReadyNAS NV (4 x 750GB) many years ago, and the thing has been rock solid. In addition to the file server, I use it as a bittorrent client. There's a pretty active community and customization options if you're comfortable in a Unix world.
A couple of years ago I upgraded to a Thecus N7700 (7 x 2GB). Higher capacity and much faster, but I've been very disappointed with the support levels. Nearly every time I've updated the firmware something has gone wrong and has required support to get involved. Good HW, bad SW.
Take the build option off the table for whatever reason, and I would go with a ReadyNAS 3200 or 4200 for a rackmount solution in the size range you're describing.
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I have my 1TD drive maxed out, and looking to picking up another drive or a couple more, it would seem I should make the UnRaid upgrade NOW since I'll have a couple new fresh drives to work with.
then I can add my existing 1tb and 25gb drives to the UnRaid system?
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2010-09-07, 14:00
(This post was last modified: 2010-09-07, 14:43 by technojunkie.)
I've got to throw another bone in the pot for unRAID. I'm running a test setup right now on the basic license, the only thing I need to put it into live use in my home is money for hardware. I've got it setup for a variety of extra services:
TwonkyServer (UPnP)
tFTP (I'm trying to get my xbmc clients to all net-boot)
Handbrake-cli + custom scripts
Firefly (secondary music streraming)
mySQL (still tweaking this, basically shared DB for xbmc)
CUPS (I have a jetdirect enabled printer, but with CUPS/avahi I get zeroconf as a second configuration ability)
Avahi (zeroconf service announcement)
Time Machine backup (still ironing this out)
Basically I'm building a home-server, but if you scratch off CUPS and tFTP, it's basically a media-turbocharged NAS
HTPC Rig:
Acer Revo 1600 /Tira2 IR rcvr
NAS: UNRAID
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After Alot of testing. I came to the conclusion the only time unraid is worth the effort is if you want cheap nas and don't know much outside of windows. It was way to limited. Proprietary software so your argue mercy of the devs. Uses an old filesystem that's no longer maintained. It's old. And locked down somewhat to only run how they want you to run it.
Ive had ubuntu 10.04.1 server set up for some time now. Rock solid. Fast disk assess. Fully saturated my gigabit network. Sabnzbd sickbeard and couchpotato setup with a 50gb mirrored array for pictures music and documents whith automatic syncing to my desktop so it's always backed up but still keeps deleted files for 7 days incase I do something silly. Future plans is to setup a dns server for the home network although net bios is workng well accross all pcs. Setup email notifications for the raid and get a ups.
Most of this can't be done on unraid and what can be done is requires alot of hassle and then doesn't work as well because your stuck with it running from USB.
Well I hope this helps people debating if they want to use unraid or not. Basicly yes it's acceptable if you want slow speed cheap nas. But no if you want well performing server that can do many things.
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I'm a bit more technical than a lot of XBMC users, but using ZFS on OpenSolaris has been pretty easy for me. I know that FreeNAS has some (earlier version) ZFS support through the BSD port of ZFS, and that could be another alternative if you're squeamish about command line stuff (zfs is easier to administer than LVM or EVMS on Linux by miles, btw - I say this as a general user as well as an IT professional). With 12TB of disks with good redundancy and failover in my mid-tower, I can't think of any other cheap storage system that could meet my household's storage needs.
Also, it's possible to run extra software under Solaris through zones or VMs, so I can run iTunes and uTorrent on the same box without worrying about whether something taking out my Windows environment will destroy my data (they have limited access to my drives). Of course, it's possible to run Solaris as a VM under Windows with raw device access to the drives, but I'd rather run a Solaris box than a Windows box out of the sheer fact that Windows boxes occasionally need to be rebooted for updates while Solaris updates rarely require such measures.
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ZFS FTW.
Starting to look for an alternative since OS is dead.
FreeBSD doesn't have the NFS/SMB flags enabled correctly the last time I checked.
The fact that most commands commands are simple, short and to the point.
My GF's server at her house I just installed ZFS-FUSE for the Movies/TV drive, it's only a single drive, and the only reason I did that is I want to know when the drive is failing and when I need to send a replacement.