markpat3rson
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Does anybody have any thoughts or experience running FreeNAS on an intel Mac Pro?
I've seen several 2006 Mac Pro's (model 1.1) for under $400 on eBay. These have 4 3.5" SATA bays, 2 5.25" PATA bays (for optical drives, but can have PATA drives installed), ECC ram (up to 32 GB supported), and 2x Xeon Dual Core either 2.0 / 2.66 / 3.0GHz.
Seems like a good deal right?
My use would be 1-2 users max, basically just ZFS with AFP for file sharing & time machine.
I have 6 3TB Green Drives that i'd want to install in it (I guess 2 would be via an external eSATA enclosure).
I've thought about the HP MicroServer G7 but it only supports 8GB of ram, and seems like 16GB support is kinda flakey.
I've seen several 2006 Mac Pro's (model 1.1) for under $400 on eBay. These have 4 3.5" SATA bays, 2 5.25" PATA bays (for optical drives, but can have PATA drives installed), ECC ram (up to 32 GB supported), and 2x Xeon Dual Core either 2.0 / 2.66 / 3.0GHz.
Seems like a good deal right?
My use would be 1-2 users max, basically just ZFS with AFP for file sharing & time machine.
I have 6 3TB Green Drives that i'd want to install in it (I guess 2 would be via an external eSATA enclosure).
I've thought about the HP MicroServer G7 but it only supports 8GB of ram, and seems like 16GB support is kinda flakey.