From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 26 04:46:42 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 04329B3E for ; Mon, 26 May 2014 04:46:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm20-vm1.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com (nm20-vm1.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com [216.39.63.18]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ACB8324C9 for ; Mon, 26 May 2014 04:46:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [216.39.60.174] by nm20.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 26 May 2014 04:43:52 -0000 Received: from [67.195.23.145] by tm10.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 26 May 2014 04:43:52 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp117.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 26 May 2014 04:43:52 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bellsouth.net; s=s1024; t=1401079432; bh=Yq3sYQIv9EPk6nhhSWYoAMFGTpHjF8+9ct7jQghSJ20=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:Message-ID:Date:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-Rocket-Received:From:To:Subject; b=rGNKtBD6aUHhGoL3plbjB38mFLUiI9894iRyGKT0A0KGHiDQY1cbb2ah2Cj/ISughc58Udd+3j3sVLDY8+b3s5DxdgCrj52eH1lqL1jEoM3h3ZHS1xV/u3pvWHpUmOAP45bRoGrS1GbM1J40Y8xjBv3swLDoaJAzBDOxiCJX7VM= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 648572.59917.bm@smtp117.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com Message-ID: <648572.59917.bm@smtp117.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 04:43:52 +0000 (UTC) X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: g.B5TxEVM1ketqvXzkLiKUbGQRUgYPd7L_v175RkHtrSIDz 8kOmvaZ3StB4SbnIdpvvmVYw7M01VPn9slm51gRA7E8kPJZnPDmexQrRQ8.4 dFY6CRVpCmAUXilEIMJJNoUSUjdxowesdLHbRDtf_ArGC4FAYa.Pzwtg0aRF 82ccMEze9KWpPcbWhW4PFBk3PB8UdH9nFlq.oYHmfP2sWhf84VTjm.vrkPxc 9ZVATlih7BTLduzydSkqWw9FI3LuYoJwBV89RJX7DluxwGyphZyjosX1.Q3r InwCP2oGPatM5bDhUEYR6dGlm2cfVod53fRzWLLF36jfCBATgrYVBQ30_2sF jj8adueDiqxRFAx0x8KVVHRX89_H.ab8Fm1i11fMqko5yjvzuLWoSjaC8iuv Ph.PlpvCWEM9oUiePYI0FzAAI0M4gundD6wcUCTr42SzMY5RDrMPmkG.vc11 kSv6Ua0VdODYKD2xwe_Kz0dOOcQHWdxUtcKwhQfXxBOKMx0sOfTpbHFwfm1x f73Zxv2s4peldzW4f5tSjog-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: Kz_aW1.swBBYof3zAD7.RWzXz9ZAQVDMml1VADsbgPT4Kq79LC0- X-Rocket-Received: from localhost (mueller6724@96.28.178.143 with plain [67.195.15.66]) by smtp117.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 May 2014 04:43:52 +0000 UTC From: "Thomas Mueller" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Hardware for NAS/NFS? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 04:46:42 -0000 Following two Western Digital hard drives going bad, one internal SATA and one external USB 3.0, 3 TB each, I am looking for a replacement that would permit access from more than one computer at one time, and also be usable for PXE/netboot. I now have two computers, and cable Internet with TP-Link wireless router that does not have a USB port. I might want to mount a file system by NFS. Ability to boot by PXE (network) would also be highly desirable. One product that I might be interested in is Seagate Central, but there are other possibilities. Seagate Central has Ethernet connection and also USB 2.0 port, not as good as USB 3.0, but still much faster than network connection (?). There are other NAS products out there, and I notice there is a tiny FreeBSD distribution NAS4free, based on FreeBSD 9.2, though I might need it to be based on FreeBSD >= 10.0. I am curious what hardware setup NAS4free might be used on, though I am not decided as to using NAS4free or trying to build something like it for FreeBSD >= 10.0. Tom