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I recently bought a MacBook Pro and have experienced Apple's poor implementation/specialties/quirks of SMB2.
My current, DAS/NAS solution is an ITX AMD AM1 Sempron system, running Ubuntu Server, with my Drobo Gen 2 connected via USB 2. This Drobo contains (4) x 4TB WD Red hard drives. The Drobo is connected, mounted and formatted NTFS; folders on the volume are setup as shares.
The server has Webmin installed and also used to host my Ubiquiti UniFi server and a PLEX Media server... in addition to my SMB file sharing. Under Windows... it worked pretty well!
With poor performance (read of about 40MB/s and write 30MB/s), strange SMB quirks with OS X and general scare of the device going belly up - Drobo being proprietary and about five years old, I am considering a new solution. Something with better performance and better designed as a NAS.
I am considering on re-vamping my mini ITX internals to a more user friendly 4-bay front swappable case, installing the hard drives and using FreeNAS.
Has anyone used it before? Does it work well? I can only imagine my performance will get better as to worse. FreeNAS uses ZFS, correct? I can't imagine its any worse off than Drobo's BeyondRAID. If a drive fails, can you swap in a new drive and tell it to rebuild it's array? Or does it do this automatically? Does ZFS manage it's own redundancy or do I have to specify 0,1,5,10 when I set it up?
My current, DAS/NAS solution is an ITX AMD AM1 Sempron system, running Ubuntu Server, with my Drobo Gen 2 connected via USB 2. This Drobo contains (4) x 4TB WD Red hard drives. The Drobo is connected, mounted and formatted NTFS; folders on the volume are setup as shares.
The server has Webmin installed and also used to host my Ubiquiti UniFi server and a PLEX Media server... in addition to my SMB file sharing. Under Windows... it worked pretty well!
With poor performance (read of about 40MB/s and write 30MB/s), strange SMB quirks with OS X and general scare of the device going belly up - Drobo being proprietary and about five years old, I am considering a new solution. Something with better performance and better designed as a NAS.
I am considering on re-vamping my mini ITX internals to a more user friendly 4-bay front swappable case, installing the hard drives and using FreeNAS.
Has anyone used it before? Does it work well? I can only imagine my performance will get better as to worse. FreeNAS uses ZFS, correct? I can't imagine its any worse off than Drobo's BeyondRAID. If a drive fails, can you swap in a new drive and tell it to rebuild it's array? Or does it do this automatically? Does ZFS manage it's own redundancy or do I have to specify 0,1,5,10 when I set it up?