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I've tried FreeNAS 7 which seemed to have some limitations. FreeNAS 8 still seems a bit beta but it is updated a lot, and every time I find a limitation or bug it's fixed fairly quickly and it runs off a USB stick quite well. Also upgrading between versions seems to work well. The down side for...

Hi, I feared the data might be a bit all over the place. I'll take some time to structure it out and repeat all my tests as you have described to try and get a consistant format to work with. The 50MBp/s figure comes from Windows 2008r2 or Windows 7 when you copy a file a dialoge window...

Also I am not using any RAID. This is a single 2TB 5900 RPM Seagate green disk. There is no encryption. The file system in use is ubuntu default ext4.

Thanks for the feedback so far I've posted my setup and testing methods above. To add to this I also tried FTP but I'll come to that shortly. So here are the various things I've been doing, I'll try and make this post as detailed as I can but if there is more information that would be...

Installed Ubuntu 11.04 x64. Came with Samba 3.5.8, tried this. About 50MBp/s so built 3.5.9 from source. Same thing.

So some more info on this one. I've got the newer revision HP Microserver as well as an older one. The older one has some bizarre problem with freenas and just dropping off the network but that's another issue in it's self as it runs Vmware fine. So to give a bit more background on what...

Having some trouble with my HP Microserver, running windows 2008 I get 100Mbp/s over the wire (copying a file) from my desktop. 2GB RAM installed and a single 2TB disk (not one of the newer 4k types). Running the same machine with Linux or FreeNAS I'm only getting 35-40Mbps (Megabytes not bits)...

So I’ve been reading around and I want to put together a reasonable SAN for my home general use and VMware lab. I’m thinking iSCSI. It should be supporting around four to five VM’s at low load most of the time and occasionally manipulating large files (vmware images, Linux ISOs etc). It...

Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone has seen any issues running FreeNAS on the HP Microserver? I've set mine up with a couple of SATA disks and iSCSI targets to serve Vmware ESXi hosts however when I start to load the box (boot XP from ESX) it will get reasonably far but when the...

Hi all, What's the current recommended network backup software? I've been through a few in my time and i'm looking for alternatives I could go to. So far I have used the following: Backup Exec - Major Solaris backup agent problems and rubbish tech support (bought via Dell) Arkeia -...

Try zoneminder (http://www.zoneminder.com/) that should point you in the right direction.

That server is a thing of beauty i must say!

I really like the dell racks, we only bought them due to buying dell servers but they work quite well. Solid, take all the standard fittings for mounting other gear nice mesh doors etc etc wheels and feet. As for sata or SAN etc, 4 of the earlier servers have 2x SAS RAID1 internally with a SCSI...

xphil3 Love the virtualisation stuff ! Any way more from the UK since its been so long since i posted, these are my work machines. I pretty much built and racked all of these my self. Lots of Sun kit ‘cause we do like our Sun stuff where I work, a few dell bits thrown in for good measure...

We use the following with a whole bunch of custom hacks to tie it into LDAP and Active Directory along with doing a few other clever things. http://sourceforge.net/projects/helpmeict/