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    1st NAS Build

    I'll be limiting myself to answering the ZFS & FreeNAS 8 question. I have FreeNAS 8 running as a virtual machine (VM) in VMWare Workstation 8 and use ZFS. This really is uber-easy to setup - no command line, straight forward GUI and I haven't had any issues so far! It has been a breeze for me...
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    1st NAS Build

    Well, let's go through that stuff one by one, shall we? Maybe you want to get a coffee or something, I reckon it's going to be a long haul ;) Grosso modo I'd say you'll get more speed with hardware in two kinds of scenarios; when frequently handling tons of small files (ergo ZFS is better with...
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    1st NAS Build

    Hi cpotter638. An interesting post you have opened here, these questions are in the back of my mind too, since I am now building my DIY NAS. Well ... actually still waiting for the hardware to arrive. But I was thinking about continually updating my thread along the way. So sooner or later I'll...
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    NAS Venture - help with hardware and an account of the build

    Hi, thanx a lot for the feedback. I am glad to be here and hope to make a little contribution to this forum. I have read through the feedbacks concerning the Zotac H67ITX over @ newegg.com - but most of these don't really concern me. Except for the SATA-issue of course! For those who do not...
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    NAS Venture - help with hardware and an account of the build

    New items & ordered Well, I have searched a bit more and altered my suggested configuration a bit. Since I saw the whole delivery takes up to around 3 weeks I thought to myself to order immediately :D Case: Lian LI PC-Q25B MB: Zotac H67itx-C-E CPU: Intel G850 RAM: 1x2GB DDR3-1333 from...
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    NAS Venture - help with hardware and an account of the build

    Hi everyone I have tried for some time now to run a virtualised NAS (VMware, RAIDz, Freenas). This worked OK for most of the time, but it's a rather painstaking thing and in the past few days I had to click through the snapshot manager more than once, because the Freenas server kept restarting...
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