Tears4Fears
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Build Your Own NAS (BYON)
Hi everyone
I am sharing my personal project, Build Your Own NAS (BYON) here.
Follow me on my BYON project that details discussions on customizing and building your own NAS from scratch.
From deciding to buy or build a NAS, I go through the selection of every hardware components, Operating Systems, RAID and more.
I plan, source, buy, build, test, benchmark and share my knowledge and findings with everyone.
As I share out my BYON right now, Phase 1 of this project has just been completed and I am presently at phase 2 but yet to document the content.
I welcome any suggestions or discussions related to NAS here, especially on NAS performance testing methods.
Updates 18-6-2013
2.1.1 NAS Assembly Part 1 is out. Click here.
3.1 Test Methods and Setup is released in draft version. To be revised if necessary.
Updates 22-6-2013
2.1.2 NAS Assembly Part 2 is out. Click here.
Apologies, I have so many pictures to share, so the assembly will be split into 4 parts.
Updates 24-6-2013
2.1.3 NAS Assembly Part 3 is out. Click here.
Updates 26-6-2013
3.1 Test Methods and Setup is now finalized. Click here.
Updates 28-6-2013 - Testing in progress
Minor revision1: I discovered a bottleneck on my Testing desktop HDD. Changed Testing Desktop HDD from WD 3TB to Toshiba 3TB.
Minor revision2: Revised Test Files to include 7 files that are larger than 4gb.
2.1.4 NAS Assembly Part 4 is out. Click Here
Updates 02-7-2013
2.2 Setup 1 - FreeNAS is out. Click here.
Updates 05-7-2013
2.3 Setup 2 - Synology DSM is out. Click here.
Updates 06-7-2013 - All installations & configurations are completed.
2.4 Setup 3 - U-NAS is out. Click here.
Updates 08-7-2013 - 1st setup - FreeNAS testing results are out!
3.2.1 FreeNAS Performance Test
3.2.2 FreeNAS Functionality Test
Updates 13-7-2013 - 2nd setup - Synology DSM testing results are out!
3.3.1 Synology DSM Performance Test
3.3.2 Synology DSM Functionality Test
3.3.3 Synology DSM Plex Transcoding Test
Updates 15-7-2013 - 3rd setup - U-NAS testing results are out!
3.4.1 U-NAS Performance Test
3.4.2 U-NAS Functionality Test
Updates 21-7-2013 - Benchmark charts are out and also the finale of BYON.
3.5.1 CIFS Benchmarks
3.5.2 iSCSI Benchmarks
3.6 Summary
3.7 BYON Poll
Hi everyone
I am sharing my personal project, Build Your Own NAS (BYON) here.
Follow me on my BYON project that details discussions on customizing and building your own NAS from scratch.
From deciding to buy or build a NAS, I go through the selection of every hardware components, Operating Systems, RAID and more.
I plan, source, buy, build, test, benchmark and share my knowledge and findings with everyone.
As I share out my BYON right now, Phase 1 of this project has just been completed and I am presently at phase 2 but yet to document the content.
I welcome any suggestions or discussions related to NAS here, especially on NAS performance testing methods.
Updates 18-6-2013
2.1.1 NAS Assembly Part 1 is out. Click here.
3.1 Test Methods and Setup is released in draft version. To be revised if necessary.
Updates 22-6-2013
2.1.2 NAS Assembly Part 2 is out. Click here.
Apologies, I have so many pictures to share, so the assembly will be split into 4 parts.
Updates 24-6-2013
2.1.3 NAS Assembly Part 3 is out. Click here.
Updates 26-6-2013
3.1 Test Methods and Setup is now finalized. Click here.
Updates 28-6-2013 - Testing in progress
Minor revision1: I discovered a bottleneck on my Testing desktop HDD. Changed Testing Desktop HDD from WD 3TB to Toshiba 3TB.
Minor revision2: Revised Test Files to include 7 files that are larger than 4gb.
2.1.4 NAS Assembly Part 4 is out. Click Here
Updates 02-7-2013
2.2 Setup 1 - FreeNAS is out. Click here.
Updates 05-7-2013
2.3 Setup 2 - Synology DSM is out. Click here.
Updates 06-7-2013 - All installations & configurations are completed.
2.4 Setup 3 - U-NAS is out. Click here.
Updates 08-7-2013 - 1st setup - FreeNAS testing results are out!
3.2.1 FreeNAS Performance Test
3.2.2 FreeNAS Functionality Test
Updates 13-7-2013 - 2nd setup - Synology DSM testing results are out!
3.3.1 Synology DSM Performance Test
3.3.2 Synology DSM Functionality Test
3.3.3 Synology DSM Plex Transcoding Test
Updates 15-7-2013 - 3rd setup - U-NAS testing results are out!
3.4.1 U-NAS Performance Test
3.4.2 U-NAS Functionality Test
Updates 21-7-2013 - Benchmark charts are out and also the finale of BYON.
3.5.1 CIFS Benchmarks
3.5.2 iSCSI Benchmarks
3.6 Summary
3.7 BYON Poll
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