Any good prebuilt NAS or hardware for DIY NAS on FreeBSD?

[Str4nd3r666]

Any recommendations of good prebuilt NAS or hardware for DIY NAS that is supported by FreeBSD? Does FreeBSD support Raid 1 to 10? Thanks in advance.

 

[SirDice]

Does FreeBSD support Raid 1 to 10?

graid(8) (for UFS), and ZFS supports various types. And there are a whole bunch of hardware RAID cards supported.

 

[msplsh]

I have been running older LSI cards (9207) on SATA drives with zero problem.

 

[mer]

Didn't we have a thread about enclosures for this within the last 4 months? There was a lot of good information in it, different suggestions on enclosures, power supplies and storage devices.
If you don't want to completely roll your own, a lot of people have mentioned:

XigmaNAS – XigmaNAS

xigmanas.com

 

[SirDice]

I have been running older LSI cards (9207) on SATA drives with zero problem.

mpr(4), mps(4), mpt(4), mfi(4) and mrsas(4). Think I've used all variants over the years.

Don't combine a hardware RAID card with ZFS though, stick to a HBA (or set your hardware RAID card to JBOD) for that.

 

[msplsh]

Didn't we have a thread about enclosures for this within the last 4 months

This one?

 

[mer]

This one?

Yep I believe that is the one I thought of. Thanks for finding it.

 

[natterangell]

I have been running older LSI cards (9207) on SATA drives with zero problem.

Seconded. Cheap, and they just work.

 

[MrBSD]

Seconded. Cheap, and they just work.

LSI is no joke.