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Build a Free NAS using… FreeNAS with SMB/AFP/iTunes/iSCSI Targets
If you want all of your storage in one centralised place, that is accessible using just about any protocol out there, then you’ll need Network Accessible Storage (NAS), This can be often very...
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Utilising and Exploring ZFS to its Potential (A Quick Guide)
Have you seen the Drobo box? it’s a SAN that allows you to create giant volumes and hot swap out hard drives at will with failure tolerance… bad news, is that it costs close to £1000 even without the...
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Multi-Homed Multi-Boxed ZFS Luns Using iSCSI
Recently i had a thought… Most of my machines are sitting redundant and have upto 4 drives in each… without unscrewing every single one of out of my rack… i want to utilise all of that space into one...
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Sharing iTunes Libraries over the Internet, Bypassing Bonjour Restrictions
Ever wanted to be able to access the shared libraries from your home… when you are away from home? I do, since I started to use FreeNAS with Firefly iTunes/DAAP media server this is exactly what i...
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Amazon Support Store
Hi everyone! I keep getting lots of emails from people asking where they can buy xyz to complete the tutorials and try out some of the things listed on CaptainGeek, well after I kept emailing people...
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Bye Bye FreeNAS hello NexentaStor
Well, i’ve used FreeNAS for around 2 years+ now, and all has been good, however, in that time demand for large quantities of storage has now been joined by demand for high speed storage; Once I had...
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Samsung F4 EcoGreen F4EG Firmware Bug Patch
Many people already know that the Samsung green drives have a bug in the firmware that may cause data loss, Samsung have created a patch that you need to create a bootable floppy disk along and drag in...
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NexentaStor AFP & iSCSI Xbench Benchmarks
UPDATED WITH BOTH iSCSI & AFP RESULTS I’ve recently setup a ZFS raidz with 7 disks using NexentaStor, natively this doesn’t come with AFP, but I managed to get a package and get this all working...
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NexentaStor ZFS Bonnie++ Benchmarks
Following on from my previous post regarding AFP and iSCSI benchmarks i’ve decided (after many requests) to post a few raw benchmarks of the system gathered by bonnie++, the environment is as follows:...
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