From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 17 20:36:08 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF94A106564A for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 20:36:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feenberg@nber.org) Received: from mail2.nber.org (mail2.nber.org [66.251.72.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 674458FC16 for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 20:36:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nber6 (nber6.nber.org [66.251.72.76]) by mail2.nber.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q4HKZw7g074446; Thu, 17 May 2012 16:35:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from feenberg@nber.org) Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 16:29:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Feenberg X-X-Sender: feenberg@nber6 To: lpeth In-Reply-To: <4FB533E3.9010805@centurytel.net> Message-ID: References: <4FB533E3.9010805@centurytel.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Anti-Virus: Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Linux Mail Server 5.6.39/RELEASE, bases: 20120517 #8044092, check: 20120517 clean Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Server 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: Thu, 17 May 2012 20:36:08 -0000 On Thu, 17 May 2012, lpeth wrote: > FreeBSD > Dear Sirs; > I have a 8core, 32 GB ram server I built myself. AMD cpu, with Supermicro > motherboard. I want to use FreeNAS as a database system, and I'm wondering > what it will cost to use FreeBSD with FreeNAS. I see the Version I would like > is $40 for a four CD set, but that does not mean I get to use the server > version of it. What is the server version going to cost? > Sincerely, > Mark T. Evans FreeNAS is effectively a FreeBSD distribution emphasizing storage. It is open source and free of cost: http://www.freenas.org/ The CDs are nice, but you can download an ISO also. iXSystems have TrueNAS, which is costly. My understanding is that FreeNAS is a subset of TrueNAS. See: http://www.ixsystems.com/storage/ix/truenas/ for more information. Daniel Feenberg