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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 02:46:56
Message-Id: CAL+8heOGjk+3oWQ=_9wAHaRfJWbv4wK7z4Zipxhrtt8XJFZ8vw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives by Mark Knecht
1 Dave
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3 On Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 4:28 PM Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
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7 > On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 1:42 PM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
8 > <SNIP>
9 > > It does appear that several people are making it so NAS boxes can be
10 > > easily built by us nerdy types and not be huge. Things are a bit
11 > > interesting right now for hardware and such. Some parts are expensive,
12 > > hard to find or just plain unavailable. Still, I suspect that this will
13 > > get better later on. The good thing, people are working on this. There
14 > > is interest in having a option.
15 > >
16 >
17 > I know I've said this before but yes, people are working on it and it
18 > is buildable by people like us.
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20 > https://www.truenas.com/truenas-core/
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22 > Any old x64 PC and a few disks will get you up and running. It's
23 > open source as much as BSD is open source. It's not Linux
24 > so there was a little learning to do but it wasn't bad.
25 >
26 > Mine has a small SSD as the boot drive and then RAID1 pairs
27 > running OpenZFS for storage. It's inexpensive if you have an
28 > old computer to build on.
29 >
30 > Good luck,
31 > Mark
32 >