[ale] NAS enclosure recommendations?

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Sat May 11 10:32:47 EDT 2013


Acmemicro.com and look for storage. I just deployed a 3U super micro with
16 4TB SAS drives and an Intel Xeon mono with 10G Ethernet. There was also
the dual 2.5" drives for OS. This system is total overkill for home use but
expandable for business through the external SAS connections.
On May 11, 2013 1:53 AM, "Doug Hall" <doughalldev at gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to build a NAS for a friend. I need a five-bay enclosure. It must
> have a 64-bit CPU and allow me to add up to 16GB of memory. It'll be using
> ZFS, which performs better with lots of memory. I'll probably need USB3,
> eSata and dual ethernet ports. A low power unit would be nice.
>
> Anyone know of and can recommend any such enclosures? The ones I'm seeing
> appear to already be set up to run some proprietary system, but don't even
> mention memory capacities or CPU specs. I want to use FreeNAS, of course.
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Doug
>
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