From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 20 00:43:19 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C28C106566B for ; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:43:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 425128FC08 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:43:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: by yxe11 with SMTP id 11so3169758yxe.3 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:43:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=zJAAkEB7rC8fF5sId+f1Xna7MjXkmf0j2VpfLffc4zI=; b=QUVf1yxB3uB1d3R+2AM42kfTLqqQ+DwJ9QFGTfdB73Ewo6QDwVtzteIy/njbgQq4uN yso4b2FyI/vTK6mmEqfbpvSr4JkF3EqeV8g7OZO6xvxImB0MBVXFrdCRrWVFn9ClNno6 1wwmOwdZBHAadP0ZRcHl4RUmGl8qiQIk1MVCs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=rBXptaBcB+2tKWiEFvF5R+4XvpKgvyyWYyOlfc9BpfmgX4b+9/9BgVbN4oqS6MWVdd iGuiRpA/1zIQAl4Nnsby9NR8aTKVpv/r9rwx9/e9FII8yR4Cxg6x2WEZVm0TKnIQI+YA Z6zmb8jzPbfdmxPHlHIqYmjcMJV8vLPlpkKBU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.100.143.17 with SMTP id q17mr5447681and.114.1248050598464; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:43:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9fa4f0760907191601y78c92beand104ceabac5c26d1@mail.gmail.com> References: <9fa4f0760907191442j6ac13aedvb1ca8ccf9053a7a5@mail.gmail.com> <9fa4f0760907191601y78c92beand104ceabac5c26d1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:43:18 -0600 Message-ID: From: Tim Judd To: Aleksandr Miroslav Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeNAS file server...which hardware to choose? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:43:19 -0000 On 7/19/09, Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Aleksandr Miroslav > wrote: >> What kind of RAID chassis, computer system should I get for this setup? >> Would a soekris be sufficient, or is that overkill? > > Or should I just buy a barebones headless desktop PC (Dell has them > cheap now for $241) for this task? I don't like OEMs. I would rather build my own. Recently well-reviewed Via ARTiGO A2000 is a 2 SATA drive enclosure. You can install anything you want in it. I don't think it has onboard raid, but a software raid (in a lightly loaded NAS) should work pretty well Let me know what you choose.