Re: was: 8TB of external storage

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Erik Hanson <[email protected]> wrote:

> I use an old POS e-machines desktop box with an AMD Sempron, 512M RAM,
> and a $100 Adaptec RAID card.
> Runs Ubuntu Server and Samba. It's a cinch to set up.
>
> But if you're looking for distros that do all the heavy lifting for you:
> http://freenas.org/
> http://www.openfiler.com/
> http://www.gluster.org/
> http://www.turnkeylinux.org/
> http://www.nexentastor.org/ (community edition is free up to 18TB)
>
> They all have wizbang web interfaces. OpenFiler didn't like my
> hardware; FreeNAS did, but I didn't enjoy looking at the web
> interface. I haven't tried any of the others.


I haven't tried any of these out of the box distros, currently running a
ubuntu fileserver.

I guess I'd like something I can drop a new (bigger) disk into at some point
in the future and it would automagically  rebuild the raid and resize...

I'd also like my disks to be encrypted.

Jay

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