Would this run FreeNAS?
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To actually load a version of FreeNAS on this over the current OS..... maybe..... I would not re-image the box. This is pretty stable and technically competes with FreeNAS. I personally run both and prefer FreeNAS over this. Saying that, this has it uses.
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Yes. I did exactly that when I purchased my Synology NAS. The BlackArmor NAS was a piece of crap, but the drives are fine and the Syno. NAS will play well with them.
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It has several sata connectors. Probably more than you will ever need unless your building a 12+ disk nas or something similar.
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No this is not a NAS. This is simply a USB NIC which requires a PC to operate.
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Ok Good Question. I personally feel that if you have the technical ability, that you should build your own. These units use a disk on module to hold the operating system. That item and a good NAS case are hard to come by. The rest of the components can be easily found and researched on the internet. New Egg dot com. Also the original project that Freenas is based from is nas4free which I think is better in a lot of ways. That is available on sourceforge's website. Now if you don't have the time or desire to build a NAS I would suggest Synology's line of products. Rock Solid performance and a ton of features. Ok Good Question. I personally feel that if you have the technical ability, that you should build your own. These units use a disk on module to hold the operating system. That item and a good NAS case are hard to come by. The rest of the components can be easily found and researched on the internet. New Egg dot com. Also the original project that Freenas is based from is nas4free which I think is better in a lot of ways. That is available on sourceforge's website. Now if you don't have the time or desire to build a NAS I would suggest Synology's line of products. Rock Solid performance and... » Read More Ok Good Question. I personally feel that if you have the technical ability, that you should build your own. These units use a disk on module to hold the operating system. That item and a good NAS case are hard to come by. The rest of the components can be easily found and researched on the internet. New Egg dot com. Also the original project that Freenas is based from is nas4free which I think is better in a lot of ways. That is available on sourceforge's website. Now if you don't have the time or desire to build a NAS I would suggest Synology's line of products. Rock Solid performance and a ton of features. « Show Less
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This has an ARM processor; the official pfSense distros are only available for x86. If you're good with a compiler, you could probably make it go - but that would be far more effort that I'd care to expend.
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I thnk it will and the setup should be quite easy. But my drive just stopped working after 1 year of flawless working; and hence all my precious data is at stake. so i wont suggest storing any precious data in this drive
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So far, for almost two years, it runs very well with Win7Pro and SSD with 16GB RAM and two 4TB drives (one internal and one external by USB 3.0) to serve as my network file server as well as my VMs (Ubuntu 12.xx and 14.xx) for computations. I never encounter any failure for this MB. Remember to install two different USB drivers (get them from ASUS driver download site) when you set up Win7/8 for enabling all the USB ports.
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yes,all it is an external drive, so it would not run an operation system, but you can retrieve data off of it like a usb tumb drive and use it as extra storage for acomputer.
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I have a DS409 that is about 5 years old now. I built a FreeNAS box 2 years ago and have had a lot of issues (12x3TB drives with 2 as hot spares and 10 in raid z2)... The FreeNAS version I used didn't pick up the hot spares as two of my drives failed and the SAS/SATA card I used has been buggy... not that Synology boxes never fail... I'm thinking of getting one of the 12-drive ones to replace my freenas box. I upped my DS409 to 4x4TB drives to backup my freenas until I resolve the issues. Having done both, Synology is a better option imho.
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Hey Taylor, I am currently running 4 4GB WD drives and almost the same config as you for FreeNAS. I decided on 1333 Mhz memory since the price wasn't that much different. I have 3 of these sytems running ESXi 5.5. Great motherboards IMO.
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CHeck the compatability of your drive at Netgear.com. The readynas only has certain drives certified.
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Yes, just be sure you do not install any programs on the drive or they may not run. If you are using the 2nd drive just for data it should be fine.
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Typically, yes. But you should always go to Synology's site to confirm supported hardware.
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Absolutely, give it few GB of ram and a proper mSata SSD, you're good to go.
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It SHOULD, but i would up the the RAM to it max gig so it SHOULD run smoothly
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I don't think so. Unless you could figure out a way to network a USB device but at that point you're better off buying a product meant to be a NAS. FYI, my unit failed after 1 month. Don't buy this product.