On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Tiernan OToole <lsmart...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good morning all. > > My home NAS died over the weekend, and it leaves me with a lot of spare > drives (5 2Tb and 3 1Tb disks). I have a Dell Poweredge 2900 Server sitting > in the house, which has not been doing much over the last while (bought it > a few years back with the intent of using it as a storage box, since it has > 8 Hot Swap drive bays) and i am now looking at building the NAS using ZFS... > > But, now i am confused as to what OS to use... OpenIndiana? Nexenta? > FreeNAS/FreeBSD? > > I need something that will allow me to share files over SMB (3 if > possible), NFS, AFP (for Time Machine) and iSCSI. Ideally, i would like > something i can manage "easily" and something that works with the Dell... > > Any recommendations? Any comparisons to each? > > Thanks. > > All of them should provide the basic functionality you're looking for. None of them will provide SMB3 (at all) or AFP (without a third party package). --Tim
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