[Hidden-tech] external hard drive system

[Rich@OTN]

we also used Openfiler https://www.openfiler.com/ on a system (since 2011)
And it has worked fine - clearly an NAS

On 2/24/2020 3:03 PM, RA Cohen via Hidden-discuss wrote:
>
> I would strongly suggest you investigate FreeNAS at 
> https://www.freenas.org/
>
> OR,
>
> a small, properly configured BSD-based system with zfs storage pools 
> would also be equivalent - it's just a matter of preference and 
> possibly cost.
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> Network Advantage could help you set up these kinds of NAS 
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> On 2/24/20 12:35 PM, explodingbee . via Hidden-discuss wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I want to purchase and set up a 10tb RAID1 external hard drive 
>> system.  (So that would be two 10tb hard drives mirroring each 
>> other.)  Someone suggested that I get a QNAP Tr-002 system (example: 
>> https://www.newegg.com/qnap-tr-002-us/p/N82E16822099076?Description=qnap%20tr-002&cm_re=qnap_tr-002-_-22-099-076-_-Product&quicklink=true). 
>> Does anyone know if that is a good system?  It is less expensive to 
>> get two independent single 10tb external hard drives and use a 
>> mirroring function available as part of Windows 10 to mirror the two 
>> drives but someone advised me not to trust Windows 10 to do that.  
>> Also, I was thinking of getting SAS drives instead of NAS drives, but 
>> that is apparently a different types of system and I don't know much 
>> about that.  Any thoughts on these things?  Also, if I do get NAS 
>> drives, which ones are best?  Thanks in advance.
>>
>> -Vincent
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