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willay |
posted on 6th May 14 at 13:20 |
As Dom says, or look into FreeNAS (http://www.freenas.org/) which is FreeBSD based (unix) and does everything you want apart from being able to run VMs. | |
andy_mk3 |
posted on 24th Apr 14 at 18:15 |
That Fujitsu looks fantastic for the money. | |
Andrew |
posted on 24th Apr 14 at 17:58 |
This is what i have | |
ed |
posted on 21st Apr 14 at 18:06 |
quote: No thanks; I've been running Time Machine on my ReadyNAS for ages now and it works just fine. | |
Dom |
posted on 21st Apr 14 at 17:14 |
quote: As said, have a look at Xpenology (it's Synology's DSM for x86/64 hardware) - PoP to setup and will do majority of the above with the exception of auto backups from FTP but i just knocked up a a simple script and CRON'd it. | |
Rob_Quads |
posted on 21st Apr 14 at 15:47 |
Personally if you are wanting to use this for TimeMachine then get a proper TimeMachine or Airport + USB disc. | |
John |
posted on 21st Apr 14 at 13:57 |
A box running some form of hypervisor is definitely handy to have. | |
ed |
posted on 21st Apr 14 at 13:29 |
I don't think so, all the things I've read have suggested Linux for unofficial Time Machine support. I'll keep looking though :) | |
John |
posted on 21st Apr 14 at 10:44 |
Does windows not do the time machine backups easily? | |
ed |
posted on 21st Apr 14 at 10:05 |
Don't think my VM idea isn't going to work actually, unless I scrap the idea of using it as a NAS. | |
Andrew |
posted on 21st Apr 14 at 08:13 |
I'm running a FUJITSU PRIMERGY TX100 S3. I have upgraded it to 24GB RAM, has 2x 2TB Hard Drives as well as the original 2x 500GB Hard Drives. I've also added an LSI Raid Controller as the onboard Raid was on software which VMware does not support. | |
ed |
posted on 20th Apr 14 at 21:49 |
Saw the older ones listed, but nowhere seems to have stock :( Think the cashback offer expired in March too - shame I didn't get round to sorting this sooner! | |
Dom |
posted on 20th Apr 14 at 21:08 |
quote: No, the N54L G7 (THIS) - although i'm not sure if it's still stocked or if HP are still running the cashback offer on it - ended up being around £82 ex VAT with the cashback, ie - dirt cheap. The G8's are brilliant especially with having a lot, lot more grunt than the previous Microservers but you probably could do better for the money (refurb Dell etc) - i don't doubt HP will do a similar cashback offer on the G8's but it'll be towards EOL if you go off the previous offers on G7 models. [Edited on 20-04-2014 by Dom] | |
Nismo |
posted on 20th Apr 14 at 15:25 |
As Dom said the micro servers are really good, have used them for a few things. | |
ed |
posted on 20th Apr 14 at 14:41 |
One of these? | |
Dom |
posted on 20th Apr 14 at 10:20 |
What about a HP Microserver running XPEnology (Synology DSM)? | |
ed |
posted on 20th Apr 14 at 10:05 |
My trusty Netgear ReadyNAS seems to have packed in, so it's time for a replacement. My plan is to build a PC which I can install Windows Server onto and then run a couple of Linux VMs on for certain tasks like Time Machine backups, media streaming and NAS stuff. |