G+_Ben Reese Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 Also at people's recommendations here (especially Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ?), yesterday I bought 9TB worth of WD Red drives. Hopefully I'll have a home-built NAS to show off before too long. Ironically, I got home from Microcenter just a few hours before watching KH325. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Shooter_FPV (Shooter_FP Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 I have a Drobo... and in the process of upgrading the drives to Red. What sort of "home built" NAS are you making? Inquiring minds want to know... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted July 8, 2017 Author Share Posted July 8, 2017 Ken Jancef? I've got a couple options I'm trying to decide from... XPenology is my first choice because Synology DSM is awesome! DSM 5.x seemed to have good community support, but DSM 6.x doesn't seem quite as supported. I'll probably give it a shot though. FreeNAS is my second choice. It seems very well supported, but I'm questioning how will it will run on the 9 year old hardware I plan on using it with. Their newest storage format requires a lot of RAM and I'm sitting at 7 GB (max possible is 8 GB). My fallback option will be Windows Server 2016. It will do a software RAID 5 and will run all the other applications I need (CrashPlan, Plex, etc). A free license is available for .edu email addresses and I think this learning experience probably falls into that use. I'm definitely open to other suggestions too, btw! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Black Merc Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 Ben Reese? oh god, anything but windows! If it can be done, run the nas on half a vm, the other 'half' sandbox whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted July 8, 2017 Author Share Posted July 8, 2017 Black Merc hehe. Well my day job is SQL Server DBA, so I live in Windows Server. We are getting a Red Hat VM soon for SQL on Linux POC. I'm looking forward to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted July 9, 2017 Author Share Posted July 9, 2017 Looks like XPenology wins - at least for initial testing. The installation has come a long way since I looked into it last. XPenology and DSM 6.1 installed real easy and was setup in probably 30 minutes! There was at least one tutorial on YouTube that got me 90% of the way there - I just had to find the XPenology loader which I want able to find on the forums anymore for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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