[ale] DIY NAS vs Boxed NAS?

[Jim Lynch]

I put together a NAS (diy) with 4 x 4Tb drives, a 120 Gb SSD boot.  I 
run zfs configured as striped/mirror giving me 8 Tb of space.  Since 
it's a NAS and the limit is the network, striping doesn't really buy me 
anything.

Been working for a couple of years until the MB quit just before the 
warranty ran out.  Have the replacement in hand, but haven't put it back 
together yet.

Jim.


On 11/30/2018 03:26 PM, Alex Carver via Ale wrote:
> I'm making a plan for some major network and hardware updates over the
> next year at home.  One of the things on the list has been a large-ish
> NAS box for storing backup images of the various computers, recording
> video from IP security cameras, and possibly just having a small shared
> area for files that need to be shared among multiple computers and users.
>
> Given the proliferation of various boxed NAS devices like Synology,
> QNAP, etc. I wanted to find out what other people would consider doing,
> whether they'd just get a boxed device or put together one from a
> motherboard, some SATA cards and a case.
>
>
>
> One other thing: what file system would you put on top of the array?
> EXT4, Brtfs, something else?
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