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From: David Rosenbaum <rosenbaumd181@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2022 02:49:30
Message-Id: CAL+8heP50V=1hDC3-voNowwOUq2SKjMJmOhBz=jZLtBCpCLt1g@mail.gmail.com
1 Tanks
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3 Dave
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5 On Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 9:46 PM David Rosenbaum <rosenbaumd181@×××××.com>
6 wrote:
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10 > Dave
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12 > On Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 4:28 PM Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
13 >
14 >>
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16 >> On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 1:42 PM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
17 >> <SNIP>
18 >> > It does appear that several people are making it so NAS boxes can be
19 >> > easily built by us nerdy types and not be huge. Things are a bit
20 >> > interesting right now for hardware and such. Some parts are expensive,
21 >> > hard to find or just plain unavailable. Still, I suspect that this will
22 >> > get better later on. The good thing, people are working on this. There
23 >> > is interest in having a option.
24 >> >
25 >>
26 >> I know I've said this before but yes, people are working on it and it
27 >> is buildable by people like us.
28 >>
29 >> https://www.truenas.com/truenas-core/
30 >>
31 >> Any old x64 PC and a few disks will get you up and running. It's
32 >> open source as much as BSD is open source. It's not Linux
33 >> so there was a little learning to do but it wasn't bad.
34 >>
35 >> Mine has a small SSD as the boot drive and then RAID1 pairs
36 >> running OpenZFS for storage. It's inexpensive if you have an
37 >> old computer to build on.
38 >>
39 >> Good luck,
40 >> Mark
41 >>
42 >

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