<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I use FreeNAS at home and it's been running smoothly for, I dunno, a couple of years now. All upgrades have been uneventful.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I built it on a desktop box. It boots from USB and uses FreeNAS software RAID5 using four consumer grade SATA drives.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I store all my photos, music and video on it. I use the built in version of Plex (not that great in the sense that it's not really fully open) for video/audio streaming and image viewing. But for image browsing I mostly just access via a Samba share on FreeNAS.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I have a bunch of Synology devices at work. They're pretty decent and seem fairly quick with security patches. but they have one fundamentally irritating shortfall for my work needs: lack of full disk encryption. I tried building my own Synology box at home but gave up. FreeNAS was just easier to get going. Synology is kinda "proprietaryt-ish" in that sense. It's really aimed at their hardware, so is tough to get working on a standard piece of consumer equipment.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">hth</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">ed</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px">_________________________________________ </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:11pt">Edward O. Holcroft</b><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px">IT Operations Manager</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:11pt">Madsen, Kneppers & Associates, Inc.</b><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px">Construction Consultants & Engineers </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px">11695 Johns Creek Parkway, Suite 250</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px">Johns Creek, GA 30097</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px">O</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"> 770.446.9606 | </span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px">F</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"> 770.446.9612 | </span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px">C</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"> 770.630.0949 | <a href="mailto:eholcroft@mkainc.com" target="_blank">eholcroft@mkainc.com</a></span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><a href="http://www.mkainc.com" target="_blank">www.mkainc.com</a> </span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 9:29 AM, Ken Cochran <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kwc@shell.theworld.com" target="_blank">kwc@shell.theworld.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Any ALEr Words of Wisdom wrt desktop NAS?<br>
Looking for something appropriate for, but not limited to, photography.<br>
Some years ago Drobo demoed at (I think) AUUG. (Might've been ALE.)<br>
Was kinda nifty for the time but I'm sure things have improved since.<br>
Synology? QNAP?<br>
Build something myself? JBOD?<br>
Looks like they all running Linux inside these days.<br>
Rackmount ones look lots more expensive.<br>
Ideas? What to look for? Stay away from? Thanks, Ken<br>
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