Main NAS (location A) with 4x3TB WD Red NAS in a MicroServer Gen8 8GB RAM ECC with FreeNAS(raidz2) network bonded. APC 1500VA connected and auto poweroff when no battery at all.
Secondary NAS with MicroServer Gen8 and old 4x2TB WD/Seagate disks with FreeNAS(raidz2) and network bonded. APC 1500VA with auto poweroff.
Periodic snapshot of important files in location A that are synchronized nightly to location B vía vpn connection.
Small (and old, but brand new after a warranty replacement) LTO3 External SAS Ultrium Unit connected to the FreeNAS in B location, daily basics backup of this snapshots for out of office backup strategy in LTO Cartridges.
No Cloud sync at all, for the moment.
Thanks for share!
;)
Javier.
Sorry for the bad news today but Synology is not HW Raid neither.
FreeNAS use the disks in JBOD mode, directly attached to the system, the same way Synology does but with ZFS vs EXT4 in Synology Hybrid RAID.
If you get a shell into your NAS you'll see the mdX devices created by Synology when setup the raid 1 with mdadm (software raid).
The advantages using FreeNAS are the use of ZFS and all the stuff behind this file system, snapshot, replication, etc.
I move from my old setup (DS508 + DS413j) to FreeNAS thanks to ZFS.
The synology web interface and all the apps into the ecosystem are the best value of this solution, but I'm still prefer ugly interface but a lot of more control to what's happen with my data and disks.
The synology web interface and all the apps into the ecosystem are the best value of this solution
You're totally right in that regard, and I suspected it was not HW RAID (maybe their top of the line products are, I don't know). But at the end of the day, I'd rather rely on a product from a company that is specialized in such solutions than my own skill which have proven not to be that reliable. :D
If I ever try again the DYI approach, I'm more interested in products like unRAID which seem really solid.
Thanks for your feedback!
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Main NAS (location A) with 4x3TB WD Red NAS in a MicroServer Gen8 8GB RAM ECC with FreeNAS(raidz2) network bonded. APC 1500VA connected and auto poweroff when no battery at all.
Secondary NAS with MicroServer Gen8 and old 4x2TB WD/Seagate disks with FreeNAS(raidz2) and network bonded. APC 1500VA with auto poweroff.
Periodic snapshot of important files in location A that are synchronized nightly to location B vía vpn connection.
Small (and old, but brand new after a warranty replacement) LTO3 External SAS Ultrium Unit connected to the FreeNAS in B location, daily basics backup of this snapshots for out of office backup strategy in LTO Cartridges.
No Cloud sync at all, for the moment.
Thanks for share!
;)
Javier.
Oooh that MicroServer is one sexy box! The problem I had with FreeNAS is that it's a software RAID, and at the time it was not without its flaws.
Sorry for the bad news today but Synology is not HW Raid neither.
FreeNAS use the disks in JBOD mode, directly attached to the system, the same way Synology does but with ZFS vs EXT4 in Synology Hybrid RAID.
If you get a shell into your NAS you'll see the mdX devices created by Synology when setup the raid 1 with mdadm (software raid).
The advantages using FreeNAS are the use of ZFS and all the stuff behind this file system, snapshot, replication, etc.
I move from my old setup (DS508 + DS413j) to FreeNAS thanks to ZFS.
The synology web interface and all the apps into the ecosystem are the best value of this solution, but I'm still prefer ugly interface but a lot of more control to what's happen with my data and disks.
J.
You're totally right in that regard, and I suspected it was not HW RAID (maybe their top of the line products are, I don't know). But at the end of the day, I'd rather rely on a product from a company that is specialized in such solutions than my own skill which have proven not to be that reliable. :D
If I ever try again the DYI approach, I'm more interested in products like unRAID which seem really solid.
Thanks for your feedback!