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<font size="2" face="Dialog">That is expensive compared to a similar Synology unit, which has an intel processor and has four 1Gb ports that can be bonded.</font> </p>
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<font size="2" face="Dialog">Or if you're feeling extravagent, a 10GB plugin module.</font> </p>
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>>> Alex Carver via Ale <ale@ale.org> 12/1/2018 10:30 PM >>><br>A fun revelation: I went to FreeNAS's website to look at the software<br>and apparently iXsystems sells a "home" server ready to go. So they're<br>yet another boxed NAS source in addition to being the OS of choice for<br>DIY. A hybrid of the two options. The case is nice, though, and has<br>activity/status indicators for each drive, which seems to be something<br>hard to find with ordinary cases. They're using a fanless motherboard<br>so there's at least a little noise reduction. Looks like possibly an<br>Atom as they're quoting only 17 Watts TDP and 80 Watts total when<br>populated with eight drives. The empty four bay is $1k and the eight<br>bay is $1,350.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br>
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