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byAnonymous Coward writes:
Get an hp micro server ($300) and 5 3tb drives. Fits in a tight space (about the size of a 4 slice toaster and runs about 55 watts. I run VMware on mine and I also run free as in a vm. Works great and a whole lot cheaper than dedicated nas device.
byrikkards ( 98006 ) writes:
Whole lot cheaper if your time is worth nothing. I have spent maybe a total of 20 minutes getting my NAS set up. I would rather spend my time doing other things than configuring a server.
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byNursie ( 632944 ) writes:
And this is why you'll never be as good as the people that really know their systems because they actually enjoy learning about and tinkering with them, setting things up and gaining a little extra insight every time.
byafidel ( 530433 ) writes:
And the small and midsized businesses that are the main audience for these devices don't care, they don't want to be good at fixing obscure problems with LVM, they want a device to hold their data which requires the least amount of staff time to setup and care for.
byNursie ( 632944 ) writes:
"the small and midsized businesses that are the main audience for these devices don't care"
So farking what? my comment was in response to the usual "only if your time is free" snark that crops up here from the wilfully ignorant.
bymsi ( 641841 ) writes:
I must have sent 30 mins setting up my micro server, I slapped in the disks and then left the install to run. If you then have to copy 5 TB of data which will take about 12hours over GigE what is the extra 10 mins?
bypnutjam ( 523990 ) writes:
I installed from a custom opensuse build made on suse studio. It took me less then 20 minutes, more like 10, for each one I setup, and I have 4 deployed currently.
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