[olug] SMB NAS devices

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I bought a Dell 2950 and loaded FreeNAS -- looks like it would meet all of your requirements except for Raid6.  The interface is very straight forward and all of the local disk is used for the NAS, as the OS runs off a small USBkey (in my setup).

Patrick
http://www.freenas.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=37


---- charles.bird at powerdnn.com wrote: 
> A dell 2950 or better yet R710(4 1GbE nics) works fairly well with OF
> 
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> >> Anybody got experience using a medium-sized NAS device for a small
> >> business network?  Care to recommend a product?
> > 
> > We bought a Silicon Mechanics storage server and put openfiler on top.
> > 
> > The hardware was a little more pricey than a small biz would probably 
> > like to spend.
> 
> That's actually right in line with what I've been looking at.
> Their Storform iS703 storage server w/12 1TB drives is $6800.
> 
> You say you installed openfiler on yours, though, but the iS703
> seems to come with a web management GUI.  Am I mistaken in thinking
> that this is essentially an appliance?
> 
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