Like many geeks I've got a considerable amount of storage at home - currently, that's around 7TB split between various storage systems and it doesn't include space provided by Hard Drives in various bits of hardware I have scattered around the study.
After HP introduced their Microserver offer I decided to get one simply to throw 4 x1TB Hard drives I had floating around into it just to provide additional storage and I thought that Openfiler booting from a 16GB USB stick would be perfect for this job.
It wasn't. I've found that openfiler is a bit cumbersome to get to grips with, the menus don't link from one section to another. So, for example, if you want to create a Windows share it's not obvious where you go - there is nothing for Windows or CIFS on the main menu and once you find it you'll often find that there is a pre-requisitie you need to configure first and thats on a different menu so you have to start again!
None of this would be a major issues except for one thing.
It's slow. Really, really painfully, awfully slow.
I know that the Microserver ships with just 1GB of RAM and that an openfiler system really needs 2GB minimum but menus should not take 5 minutes+ to respond to a click and I notice that other people have been complaining about the same issues.
So, for me Openfiler works, is clunky and slow. I'm going to replace it this weekend with FreeNAS.
1 comment:
Why, dear god, why? :-)
I currently have about ~450Gb of data on my PC and that's easily the most I've ever had. That's only because I have all of the post re-start Dr Who and the entire ~300 episodes of Bleach!
It boggles my mind to think what any home user would use 1Tb for never mind multiple 1Tb disks. Yes, if you do semi-pro photography and keep everything in RAW or perhaps if you do lots of home video but otherwise...?
Personally I'm going the other way with building up to archiving my existing photos / music and then just keeping them all in the cloud (if only Google Music didn't suck so much).
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