Many years ago, I bought a Synology 4-bay CS 407. It ran fine for a while, but for the last year or so, it became to misbehave. Every few weeks, the volume would get corrupted and it would report a bad hard drive. Checking out the hard drive, I would find that they are fine. Finally, I had to dump it.
I am ready to jump for an open source solution, i.e., FreeNas 8, and need to get right hardware for it now. I have been reading threads here, and found people recommending HP ProLiant N36L microserver. I need at least 4TB capacity available with redundancy. Does the HP server run FreeNas 8 fine without any issues?
If there are any limitations, I would like to build my own FreeNas box. In that case, I would love to get some recommendations. I don't have a lot of time to research parts and components on my own -- it was fun when I had more time, but not anymore. So, I would go by your recommendations. The only major constraints are size (smaller wanted) and that it should not be too pricey. This will be used at home mostly for taking backup of data from at most 2-3 windows 7 machines on samba/CIFS.
I am ready to jump for an open source solution, i.e., FreeNas 8, and need to get right hardware for it now. I have been reading threads here, and found people recommending HP ProLiant N36L microserver. I need at least 4TB capacity available with redundancy. Does the HP server run FreeNas 8 fine without any issues?
If there are any limitations, I would like to build my own FreeNas box. In that case, I would love to get some recommendations. I don't have a lot of time to research parts and components on my own -- it was fun when I had more time, but not anymore. So, I would go by your recommendations. The only major constraints are size (smaller wanted) and that it should not be too pricey. This will be used at home mostly for taking backup of data from at most 2-3 windows 7 machines on samba/CIFS.