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FreeNAS 8 – cave man can do it

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It’s FreeNAS. It’s easy. Set it and forget it with full fledge NAS you can’t find anywhere else. Well, it might not have DRBD, but for home/personal or even small business should be able to cope with rsync easily.

At least, this version makes me happy. My SS4200 comes alive w/ port multiplier; it just lives up to its potential.

Kernel log speaks louder than anything.

+pmp0 at siisch1 bus 0 scbus1 target 15 lun 0
+pmp0: < Port Multiplier 0325197b 000e > ATA-0 device
+pmp0: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, NONE, PIO 8192bytes)
+pmp0: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, NONE, PIO 8192bytes)
+pmp0: 15 fan-out ports
+ada1 at siisch1 bus 0 scbus1 target 1 lun 0
+ada1: ATA-8 SATA 2.x device
+ada1: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA5, PIO 8192bytes)
+ada1: Command Queueing enabled
+ada1: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
+ada2 at siisch1 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0
+ada2: ATA-8 SATA 2.x device
+ada2: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)
+ada2: Command Queueing enabled
+ada2: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
+ada3 at siisch1 bus 0 scbus1 target 3 lun 0
+ada3: ATA-8 SATA 2.x device
+ada3: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)
+ada3: Command Queueing enabled
+ada3: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
+ada4 at siisch1 bus 0 scbus1 target 2 lun 0
+ada4: ATA-8 SATA 2.x device
+ada4: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA5, PIO 8192bytes)
+ada4: Command Queueing enabled
+ada4: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)

Thanks, FreeBSD guys enabling this feature. Thanks, FreeNAS folks developing nice-and-easy NAS.

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New HP Home server EX485 & 487 are up

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It has been a rumor for a while; finally it’s up on HP website. Basically it’s just changing from AMD platform to Intel platform. Can it be more exciting? no!

new Media Smart Server

Same old brand chassis with a little new change:-

HP EX485 & EX487 spec

These two new models have only one difference; size of the storage. It’s not even clear whether this Celeron will be dual-core or not since there are 2 possibilities suiting this ambiguous spec.

Celeron 64bit 2GHz

Hope that HP is not that cheap to put single core on this 2 servers since the price of E1400 is only $8 more, but thinking of 65W versus 35W, HP might come up with such a nicely green excuse. Celeron 440 does to job well! Overall, I’m happy to grab EX470 at $260 on black Friday. Only $30 more for new Athlon 64 might be able to gain performance to be on par with these new releases. That is easy. Stay tuned for full review at myCapsules.com.

read EX485 review @wegotserved.co.uk

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