[geeks] QNAP review

[Nathan Raymond]

BTW, does anyone know if there's a way to get this motherboard?

http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5422#ov

Seems pretty ideal for a NAS (or a server cluster). 64-bit ARM, ECC RAM
support, and 10gig ethernet onboard. Not sure how well FreeBSD / ARM
supports that hardware though...


On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Nathan Raymond <nraymond at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 02:34:55PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
>> > On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 09:30:35PM -0400, Shannon wrote:
>> > >I am slowly working on a small review of the QNAP TS-453A NAS/server.
>> I got a
>> > >4-drive unit and will post my initial review soon I hope.
>> >
>> > I have a couple of 2-bay NAS units, one QNAP and one Synology, that
>> I'll have
>> > up for sale soon (with no drives).  Finally bit the bullet and built an
>> > 8-drive FreeNAS/NAS4Free box.
>> >
>> > https://www.mrbill.net/nasbuild/
>>
>> No ECC ram or motherboard?  I thought that was highly recommended for ZFS.
>>
>
> That's my understanding, and also one of the things that's held me back
> from getting a FreeNAS at home (i.e the extra cost of an ECC
> motherboard/CPU/RAM), though I do think the iXsystems FreeNAS Mini hardware
> platform looks pretty good for $999:
>
> https://www.ixsystems.com/freenas-mini/
>
> If I go the FreeNAS route personally, I would lean toward a hardware
> solution from iXsystems. In the meantime, I have a Synology DS1515+ that I
> upgraded to 16GB of RAM and a single 128GB SSD acting as a read cache for
> the whole volume. Synology recently added BtrFS support, which I take it to
> mean it's likely ready for production use, though I don't know how it
> stacks up to ZFS currently (I know for a while ZFS had the advantage of
> being the more mature solution, though my understanding is that the license
> scheme will ultimately keep ZFS from becoming mainstream in the way that
> BtrFS can).
>
> - Nate