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    HP Micro Server N36L with FreeNAS

    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!

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    Re: HP Micro Server N36L with FreeNAS

    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.

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    Re: HP Micro Server N36L with FreeNAS

    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.

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    Re: HP Micro Server N36L with FreeNAS

    Quote Originally Posted by Splash View Post
    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.
    ZFS is optional though.... (and FreeNAS with UFS will take up less resource than Ubuntu server)

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    Quote Originally Posted by barry2811 View Post
    ZFS is optional though.... (and FreeNAS with UFS will take up less resource than Ubuntu server)
    It is? It seemed mandatory in FreeNAS8. As I said, with a decent amount of RAM it should be ok, but with the initial 1Gb you may see ropey performance of FreeNAS8. No idea about 7.

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    Re: HP Micro Server N36L with FreeNAS

    Quote Originally Posted by b0redom View Post
    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.
    Sounds great!
    I intend to use as a repository for HD movies and stream them to a streamer over Wifi, and the question is how good is the performance on that?
    I mean, does it able to read and transfer an HD movie (5-6GB) without hickups?
    Thx!

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    Re: HP Micro Server N36L with FreeNAS

    Quote Originally Posted by Splash View Post
    It is? It seemed mandatory in FreeNAS8. As I said, with a decent amount of RAM it should be ok, but with the initial 1Gb you may see ropey performance of FreeNAS8. No idea about 7.
    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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    Re: HP Micro Server N36L with FreeNAS

    Quote Originally Posted by yukis1 View Post
    Sounds great!
    I intend to use as a repository for HD movies and stream them to a streamer over Wifi, and the question is how good is the performance on that?
    I mean, does it able to read and transfer an HD movie (5-6GB) without hickups?
    Thx!
    I have absolutely no idea how it will work over wifi, but I can tell you I use it to stream 1080p uncompressed Bluray MKVs over wired GigE with no hiccups whatsoever - even when it's doing other stuff.

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