Recent content by wickedgtr1

might want to checkout openfiler and nexenta - both have free versions - nexenta also supports zfs - both of these (in my humble opinion) seem better than freenas. if you have time you can get virtual pc for windows to make test setup of each to see what you prefer interface / management wise.

cheap good raid 5 card pcie -- Dell Perc 5i -- you can get them for less then $200 on ebay with backup battery. Its a SAS controller, but SAS is backwards compatible with SATA. Specs: Intel IOP333 256MB Ram (up to 512MB) PCI-E 8x (pci-e scales to the links available i.e. a 16x card can run in...