Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Spencer Cheng writes: > > On Apr 14, 2012, at 13:56, Akhil Lal wrote: > > Just got an HP N40L microserver to use for network backup and am > > trying to > > decide between WHS 2008 and FreeNAS. > > > > Any comments or suggestions? > > I don't know about WHS 2008 but FreeNAS 8.03, which is what I am > running, takes a bit of fiddling. If you are fine with that, give > FreeNAS a try. 8.2 should be out soon. > > Using a low power CPU, AMD E35, I can get about 70 MB/s over NFS. > > One of the advantage of using FreeNAS 8 is that is can act as a > Time Machine backup disk for my Mac so I don't need to buy Apple's > Time Capsule (even though I have one). > I'm also a happy user of FreeNAS. I use it for a variety of purposes, including sharing via AFS and as a repository for Time Machine backups. It isn't a simple "open the box and turn it on" kind of thing but it's not that hard to make sense of. I'm happy to help if you get flummoxed. g.