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FreeNAS vs. WHS – Storage Server Challenge

Administrator — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:12:51 +0000

jlebeau put a NAS server together and installed FreeNAS and MS Windows Home Server (WHS) to see which one had the best features. As so often, both product have their good and bad points: I recently put together some spare … Continue reading →

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Creating a NAS Box Using OpenFiler

Administrator — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:17:41 +0000

“In a recent article we saw how easy it is to take an existing server and enable NFS, effectively turning it into a NAS box (See Creating a NAS Box with an Existing System). The steps are fairly simple and … Continue reading →

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FreeNAS vs NexentaStor

Administrator — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:33:00 +0000

There has been feedback on the FreeNAS forums in the past that network transfer in FreeNAS is slow. HarryD has now tested and compared the performance of FreeNAS 0.7.1 stable (Build 5127) and Nexentastor Community Edition 3.0.2. From his conclusion it’s apparent that FreeNAS … Continue reading →

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Learning FreeNAS – a review

Administrator — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:22:22 +0000

Writing books about software almost certainly means that the book will be out-of-date sooner rather than later. This is even more the case when writing open source software under active development. However, this has not stopped Packt Publishing from releasing … Continue reading →

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VortexBox 1.2 released

Administrator — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:12:54 +0000

Andrew Gillis has announced the release of VortexBox 1.2, a Fedora-based Linux distribution with the goal of turning an unused computer into an easy-to-use music server or jukebox: “VortexBox 1.2 released. The VortexBox community has been working hard on this release. … Continue reading →

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Distributed Replicated Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS On Fedora 12

Administrator — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:08:57 +0000

This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Fedora 12) to a distributed replicated storage with GlusterFS. Nodes 1 and 2 (replication1) as well as 3 and 4 (replication2) will mirror each other, and replication1 and replication2 will be combined to one … Continue reading →

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SUN OpenStorage presentation

Administrator — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:06:35 +0000

“At work (client site) SUN made a presentation about their OpenStorage products (Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems) today. From a technology point of view, the software side is nothing new to me. Using SSDs for zfs as a read-/write-cache is something we … Continue reading →

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Use OpenFiler as Free VMware ESX SAN Server

Administrator — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:48:59 +0000

“Many of the VMware ESX Server advanced features cannot be used without a SAN (storage area network). Besides the high cost of the ESX Server software and the Virtual Infrastructure Suite, a SAN can be a huge barrier to using … Continue reading →

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A guide to network attached Storage Devices for Backup

Administrator — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:33:22 +0000

The New York Times has put together a guide helping you find the best NAS storage servers for your need: “… [a] NAS provides a central hard drive on which you can store, share and back up all files from … Continue reading →

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NAS 2.0 adapter from Addonics

Administrator — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:15:45 +0000

The NAS 2.0 adapter is Addonics‘ 2nd generation NAS adapter that supports the Gigabit network to double the performance. Comes with two high speed USB ports, the NAS 2.0 adapter enables any USB hard drives or SSD and a USB … Continue reading →

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Addonics Mini NAS