Hi,
I'm thinking about buying the HP Micros Server and installing a USB drive with FreeNAS on it.
Has anyone tryed it before?
Can you share your opinion on that config?
Performance wyse? etc??
Thx!
Hi,
I'm thinking about buying the HP Micros Server and installing a USB drive with FreeNAS on it.
Has anyone tryed it before?
Can you share your opinion on that config?
Performance wyse? etc??
Thx!
A friend of mine did, but found the performance a little lacking with only 2Gb of RAM (ZFS being rather RAM-hungry), he eventually ended up installing Ubuntu Server and setting that up as a fileserver instead.
Exactly what I have. I've got 5x2TB WD Greens in it, and FreeNAS 8.0. Works fine for me. I'm using it as an SMB to stream HD movies etc. A document repo, and an iSCSI server to host games for my iMac (running Windows 7 in Bootcamp).
I've only got 4GB in mine, but the performance is fine. Depends on your use case though. How many clients etc.
You get a choice of UFS or ZFS when creating volumes.
http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Vol...eating_Volumes
The RAM section of the hardware requirements also advises using UFS in RAM limited situations.
http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Har...quirements#RAM
I personally still use version 7 as 8 is not feature rich in anyway yet. (The current beta's of 8.0.1 at least add rSync and when 8.0.1 goes release I may switch).
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