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Re:Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B by snuxoll on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:06PM (#21706979)
Not GP, but considering he said “Cloud Station” I assume he’s using a Synology NAS which is a ready-to-go product (just add drives).

Personally I have a 2U Dell R520 I run FreeNAS on which cost me as much as one of synology’s systems with a lot more capability. But I also have a 24U rack in my office and use it to provide storage for my hypervisors in addition to Plex, general SMB shares, etc. so I have use cases that are a little more complicated than even the average HN user from their home network.

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Re:Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B by LilBytes on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @11:22PM (#21709955)
I ran FreeNas many moons ago, I ripped it out after the FreeNas 10 nightmare. Sounds like it's been pretty unstable ever since and now run ProxMox.

How've you found FreeNas recently? Or are you still running the FreeNas 9?

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Re:Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B by snuxoll on Thursday December 05, 2019 @01:31AM (#21710384)
I never upgraded to FreeNAS 10, it was a significant departure and it was pretty clear ixSystems had made a fumble and was going to end up needing to redirect the ship. Once 11.1 came out and it was clear they learned not to throw baby out with the bathwater I upgraded and have been quite happy with the train since, though I’m glad the “new” dashboard is still optional because it needs some love yet.
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