[TriLUG] Storage server diy

[Matt Pusateri via TriLUG]

I would say if it froze it was either the usb stick and not a full installation. Or some issue specific to your hardware. FreeBSD has always been rock steady for me. So much so I bought a TrueNas at work. IX Sustems has been awesome 

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> On Aug 3, 2019, at 11:01 AM, Hariharan Gopalan <rdu.hari at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I did try FreeNAS booting from a usb stick, but it would frequently freeze / error out and would need a reboot. Will check out nas4free.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>> On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 10:14 AM Bill Weinel via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>> On Friday, August 2, 2019 8:10:11 PM EDT Matt Pusateri via TriLUG wrote:
>> > I’d seriously look at Freenas if you don’t have experience. It’ll give you
>> > an appliance like experience which may be valuable. Has ZFS out of the box
>> > which Is probably more stable than ZFS on Linux  because it’s based on
>> > FreeBSD. And I believe that you can get support through IX Systems if you
>> > would need it.
>> 
>> I have used NAS4Free (PHP version based upon the original Freenas 0.7 code) 
>> here for a few years and have no complaints. Based upon your individual needs, 
>> you may wish to review the comparison to see which would work better for your 
>> application.
>> 
>> https://www.freenas.org/freenas-vs-nas4free/
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Bill
>> 
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