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Sunday, July 21, 2013

3.7 Polling - What's Your Pick?

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  1. AnonymousJuly 21, 2013 at 8:11 PM

    Congrats on objective and thorough study approach. My personal choice pick DSM and for that reason I'm ditching my active/production FreeNAS box alongside test OpenMediaVault. The only thing left desired is block level deduplication, but that might never happen within official Synology. Perhaps the best outcome would be if Synology decides to sell DSM SW with ***limited*** support.

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  2. JTSFJuly 21, 2013 at 10:07 PM

    Thank you!

    ZFS deduplication adds overhead and I didn't plan to use it. For FreeNAS, I would consider it's storage scalability as the area that demands for improvement. But i doubt there will be any because vdev and zpool are the core fundamentals.

    If you are switching from FreeNAS to Synology DSM, do a POC (proof of concept, trial) first to determine does it suits your needs and assess the shortcomings of it.

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  3. VincentJuly 21, 2013 at 11:11 PM

    Thanks for your inspiration... my NAS build completed, getting throughput of 96 MB/s - 100 MB/s transferring 2.5 TB large size files using CIFS.

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  4. JTSFJuly 21, 2013 at 11:50 PM

    I am glad that this BYON project is helpful to others.
    What OS are you using Vincent?

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  5. AlwaysbadboyJuly 22, 2013 at 10:25 PM

    Definitely, the synology DSM is the best one.....and it is quite stable running on non-official hardware....great project blog!

    Question, is your blog running on your NAS?

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  6. JTSFJuly 23, 2013 at 12:31 AM

    Thank you! =)

    Nope, this blog is on blogger.

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  7. PasionAugust 3, 2013 at 10:24 PM

    Hi. I'm running my OWN NAS

    CPU : i5 3570t
    RAM : 16GB

    ..etc..

    I'm running ESXI server. So I use Ubuntu, Windows, Mac, Xpenology on my ESXI server.

    I run several homepages like webhard(http://webhard.pasion.kr), Blog(http://blog.pasion.kr)

    Nice to meet U

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  8. JTSFAugust 4, 2013 at 12:40 AM

    To my Korea friend

    Very nice setup you got there!

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  9. AnonymousSeptember 13, 2013 at 1:32 AM

    What an excellent post. I have never read such a detailed report with extensive test results for a hobby project in my life. Keep up the good work mate.

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  10. JTSFSeptember 16, 2013 at 9:40 PM

    Thank you for the appreciation!

    Please feel free to share with anyone who take keen interest in building his / her own NAS.

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  11. UnknownOctober 3, 2013 at 5:19 PM

    Hi, i finally find BYON user in singapore.
    I also did a similar NAS like yours but with much more easier set up. Just to share my build, you may ignore the following if you are not interested...

    I purchased a HP N54L Microserver (ship from Japan) cost me about SGD$340. I found a previous gen (N40L) in Simlim and cost SGD$899 :(
    I added 8GB ram and an Intel dual server lan card 82576B chipset (purchase from Hong Kong)
    I installed Exsi 5.1 + Microsoft WHS 2011 + DSM + pfsense.
    Later on i realize this machine does not support VT-d, so i change it to use DSM only.

    There are some pros:
    Faster processor than E350.
    Supports up to 32GB ECC Ram (i dun think i will boost it up to that)
    Dun really need to DIY 100% (though i would enjoy hands on)
    6 USBs
    Support 6* Hotswap (5 SATA II + 1 eSATA), after bios mod
    2 pcie slot (low profile)

    And Cons:
    No build in sound. If i need it to output sound (convert back to normal pc) may need a pcie sound card or HDMI graphic card.
    Power consumption most probably higher than your build, sorry that i dun have a power meter to test it)

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    1. JTSFOctober 15, 2013 at 4:53 PM

      Thanks for sharing your valuable BYON experience.

      I came across a group of HP N54L users who also used it as a NAS. This microserver is pretty neat and not too costly given it's hot-swappable features. I like it at first look :)

      What OS are you using? A NAS doesn't require any sound unless you are using it as a multi function NAS.

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  12. EdmundOctober 17, 2013 at 1:38 PM

    Thanks for your clear and detailed post.

    Initially, I was contemplating whether to buy the off-the-shelf NAS or BYON. After reading your post, I decided to go BYON using Synology DSM.

    My BYON consist of the following hardware:
    - Fractal Design Node 304 (White)
    - Intel D510MO dual-core Atom motherboard
    - 2GB DDR2 memory
    - Silicon image sil3114 PCI sata raid card (motherboard has only 2 sata ports and doesn't support any raid)
    - NEC usb3.0 mini-PCIe card for front panel usb3.0 ports.
    - 2x Hitachi 750GB HDDs (raid 1)
    - 1x Kingston 32GB SSD (for storing the OS)

    The installation didn't go exactly smooth at first. Using your version of the DSM, the sil3114 raid card doesn't work, causing the HDDs not to be detected. Then I went back the internet to dig around and found an earlier repacked version (DSM 4.1 build 2668) that is proven to work with the raid card. So I downloaded and installed it. The raid card indeed works but then the USB3.0 cannot work, causing the front panel USB3.0 ports to become non-operational. Again back to the internet and found an even newer repack version (4.2 build 3202). After installing it and voila, everything now works beautifully. Performance and stability is top notch after testing it for a couple of days :)

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    1. JTSFOctober 17, 2013 at 5:09 PM

      Fantastic! It's great to hear another one of the success story in BYON,

      Thanks for sharing your build list. May others find your input useful =)

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