Freenas or alternative?

[Del Lardo]

You might want to have a look at http://www.nexentastor.org/ Not tried it yet but a friend swears by it (not at it)

[Mondo]

Up and running !!!

I got home just after 7, and by 7:19, the drives were in, power on, CD installed, and after familiar myself with the Client program, did firmware update, client software update, set admin password etc (did the same on my MBP as well). I have set it up to back up my USB Drive that I use to host my Wedding photos. It is backing up via Wifi N network currently.




In between I managed to get changed, got dinner too

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Burble

The nice thing about the Drobo is that even if the Drobo itself fails you can shove the discs into a new Drobo and hey presto, there's your data.

I can vouch for this. Exchanged all the disks in one Drobo with all the disks in the other at the weekend to see if the other Drobo was any more reliable (no crashes yet). All the data was right where I left it. Just make sure you turn the Drobo(s) off first, otherwise they'll get mighty upset!