[Hidden-tech] external hard drive system

[Elijah Gwynn]

+1 for BSD-based system. If you've got some unix savvy, it's relatively 
easy to set up FreeBSD with ZFS in various RAID configs. It's also great 
for running your own local services if you want to get more out of your 
hardware.

Eli

On 24 Feb 2020, at 16:38, Rich at OTN via Hidden-discuss wrote:

> 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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>> 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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