Fun sign for a first NAS () to construct. For the price you can’t bump attack. The CPU cooling fan makes over time a lot of noise.
Pros
- Cheap
- Running easy FreeNAS
- Sufficient SATA connections
Cons
- CPU fan makes too much noise
- Just completed. n 1 Gb ethernet connection
Final conclusion
Score: 4Per criterion
Features
Score: 4
Fun sign for a first NAS () to construct. For the price you can’t bump attack.
Built in a Fractal Design Node 304 with 4 old 1TB disks that I had lying in RAID10. And within half a day I had with FreeNAS on a USB stick, a NAS running, with enough bells and whistles (iSCSI, NFS, thin provisioning) to use as storage for an ESX labje to act. Maybe even a small SSD, put it as read or write cache, but first, look at how many IOPS, and here to retrieve. Just completed. n 1Gb ethernet connection, so play with LACP e.d. there is not. I doubt if the small Atom processor that also could pull.
The CPU can’t really do much load, for a simple lab is sufficient, but HD video streaming, I would not so quickly go try.
But after a day or two it started to sound to fall. Initially suspicious, I have the three fans of the cabinet. That I had on the system board and pinned, but 3-pin, so without the speed control, and so at full speed. Not useful. Then the fans via the ‘gearbox’ of the case on the power supply is pricked and at half power. Nice and quiet, but after a day it started the noise again. Turned out to be the fan of the CPU is the culprit! So I have this board for stability lower score.
But what do you want for a sign of lwa 40,-?