David Dyer-Bennet
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It looks like there are lots of models of the C2100 available used fairly cheaply, and they support 12 drives. Do they work with FreeNAS? I see two threads mentioning them, and it kind of looks like they do, which would be nice.
Because I need too much disk too cheap. And I don't need that much performance (few users, mostly backup or archival materials). The drives alone are more than we can afford :-(.
We've got a suitable place for a rackmount server or three (noisy doesn't matter much).
I've been thinking of having to learn about "disk shelves" and controllers and all that -- and those things are *expensive*, and unless I understand them high risk as well. Whereas a 12-bay server would really get us caught up, and used units with 24GB are under $400 here and there.
While it's off-topic, can I ask what people know against them? As I say, more archival and backup for personal and semi-pro projects, not something where half a day of downtime when it breaks is a problem, doesn't need incredible performance, not doing dedup so don't need huge amounts of memory, etc.
Because I need too much disk too cheap. And I don't need that much performance (few users, mostly backup or archival materials). The drives alone are more than we can afford :-(.
We've got a suitable place for a rackmount server or three (noisy doesn't matter much).
I've been thinking of having to learn about "disk shelves" and controllers and all that -- and those things are *expensive*, and unless I understand them high risk as well. Whereas a 12-bay server would really get us caught up, and used units with 24GB are under $400 here and there.
While it's off-topic, can I ask what people know against them? As I say, more archival and backup for personal and semi-pro projects, not something where half a day of downtime when it breaks is a problem, doesn't need incredible performance, not doing dedup so don't need huge amounts of memory, etc.
