NAS Storage Server

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 VMware ESX and features like VMotion, VMware High Availability (VMHA), and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler [...]

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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 multiple computers in the household. The NAS drive connects via an Ethernet cable to a wireless [...]

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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 printer to becomes instantly shareable over LAN. The NAS 2.0 adapter supports both SMB (Server Message [...]

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Addonics Mini NAS

FreeNAS installation – setting up Unison (video)

Administrator — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:46:19 +0000

Pox and Ragble explain how to use Unison to sync a Mac computer to a FreeNAS box. Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up [...]

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FreeNAS installation – setting up rsync (video)

Administrator — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:37:21 +0000

Pox and Ragble explain how to use rsync for mirroring data stored the FreeNAS Box. rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] FreeNAS installation – setting up rsync (video) is a post from: NAS, [...]

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Step-by-step how to make a FreeNAS Box (video)

Administrator — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:31:41 +0000

Pox and Ragble give an in depth guide for making your own Network Attached Storage device with FreeNAS. [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] Step-by-step how to make a FreeNAS Box (video) is a post from: NAS, SANs and Storage Server Technology Related posts:FreeNAS ready [...]

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Build a Home Media Server with unRAID

Administrator — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:19:03 +0000

Ben Long has written a post on PC World website on his experience with Lime Technology’s unRAID. It’s not so much about how to build a home media server with unRAID, but more an account of his (positive) experience: “One benefit of digital media distribution is that you can store all of your music, movies, TV [...]

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ZFS data integrity tested

Administrator — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:39:35 +0000

Robin Harris over at the ZDnet.com Storage Bits blog analyses a new UW-M paper analyzing the fault tolerance claims of ZFS: “File systems guard all the data in your computer, but most are based on 20-30 year old architectures that put your data at risk with every I/O. The open source ZFS from Sun Oracle claims [...]

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Apple shuts down ZFS open source project

FreeNAS 0.8 Roadmap

Administrator — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:31:41 +0000

Olivier Cochard-Labbé has added a roadmap page to the FreeNAS website: FreeNAS 0.8 roadmap. We can already see a positive impact from iXsystem’s takeover of the FreeNAS project: “Refactor the build system” and the “one click binary installs”. Two features that PC-BSD (another iXsystems project) already has. PC-BSD has the Push Button GUI installer and iXsystems also [...]

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iXsystems iX-N4236 Orion II Server Series

Administrator — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:58:32 +0000

The Orion II Storage Server & JBOD Storage Expansion Deliver Unparalleled Storage Density With Redundant Cooling and Powerful Intel® Technologies iXsystems have released the iX-N4236 Orion II Storage Server which is designed to handle storage-intensive tasks while remaining at an optimal temperature and drawing less power than other servers in its class. The Orion II’s powerful [...]

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