<div dir="ltr">+1 FreeNAS but it's pretty inflexible, though adding drives for RAID expansion is slated on their upcoming features.<br><div>I've been running an 8x 4 TB RAID-Z2 setup with 10 Gb fiber for quite a while and it's rock solid.</div><div><br></div><div>Unraid seems to pretty flexible as far as options go, but not as performant as FreeNAS.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 4:15 PM James Baker via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I've considered building one recently as well.<br>
The problem that I ran into was the case...<br>
I'd like a nice small one (like the pre-mades have).<br>
Trouble is that I couldn't find a small one that I liked (or hardly at all).<br>
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Subject: [ale] DIY NAS vs Boxed NAS?<br>
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I'm making a plan for some major network and hardware updates over the<br>
next year at home. One of the things on the list has been a large-ish<br>
NAS box for storing backup images of the various computers, recording<br>
video from IP security cameras, and possibly just having a small shared<br>
area for files that need to be shared among multiple computers and users.<br>
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Given the proliferation of various boxed NAS devices like Synology,<br>
QNAP, etc. I wanted to find out what other people would consider doing,<br>
whether they'd just get a boxed device or put together one from a<br>
motherboard, some SATA cards and a case.<br>
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One other thing: what file system would you put on top of the array?<br>
EXT4, Brtfs, something else?<br>
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