[TriLUG] Once again some NAS questions

[Kevin Hunter Kesling via TriLUG]

Definitely concur.

We bought one of their systems a couple of years ago.  FreeBSD, ZFS, and 
fantastic support.  Had two self-inflicted issues, and their support did 
all that we expected and more.  Rock solid.  Compared to the best 
competing bid at the time, iXsystems:

   * had a vastly more knowledgeable salesperson
   * offered more robust backing technology (e.g., ext4 over ZFS)
   * offered *much* better surrounding hardware
   * came in at ~half the price

As ever, I'm open to better options, but for now, I'm personally of the 
mind that iXsystems is the best-in-show (short of DIY inclinations, of 
course).

Kevin

At 9:55am -0500 Fri, 17 Feb 2017, Kevin Otte Via Trilug wrote:
> I had occasion to talk with these folk at a previous employ:
> https://www.ixsystems.com/
>
> They have a local account rep that was great to work with.
>
> Under the hood it's FreeNAS, so you could use other hardware if you so
> desire.
>
> On 02/16/2017 03:06 PM, Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG wrote:
>>       If you wanted to build/buy a NAS with some 20TB with spinny
>> disks, what would you recommend?