Posts by CynicalGeek

I got a whole penny back. Made sure they paid it into my paypal account. Not sure how much they'll pay for that transfer.

Doing your business in the long grass

My HP ProLiant G7 N54L MicroServer with 8GB, OpenIndiana and Napp-It delivers >100MB/s (>800Mbps) read and write performance off a three disk RAID0 striped volume of 2TB drives. I've set up ZFS snapshots every hour and send nighty ZFS snapshots to a remote server for DR.

The box cost £150 with £50 cashback, OS and NAS software was free. The £300 I saved from buiding the box myself was spent on a second server for backup purposes and drives.

So, yes these DIY boxes aren't in the same league, there in a league above the ones listed.