From what I've been able to tell, FreeNAS is just FreeBSD with a bunch of file-server specific ports pre-installed. As such, it's not doing anything funky with the hard drives - plain old UFS2. Eric On Mar 11, 2008, at 8:31 AM, auditodd at comcast.net wrote: > I used to use FreeNAS... > Then I just bought a 500GB drive for my Linux machine and I use that > and Samba for network storage since that machine is on all the time > anyway. > > Funny thing about FeeNAS... > Every single hard drive that I have used for the OS over the last > few years works fine for the FeeNAS OS, but as soon as I try to wipe > the drive to reuse it I get a report that there are errors on the > drive. Now it might be possible that the drives actually did go bad, > but 4 different times? Sounds a little suspicious to me. > > Just my $0.02, but I won't recommend FreeNAS to anyone. > > -- > ========== > Todd Young > > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: "Tony Yarusso" <tonyyarusso at gmail.com> >> I'd second what Sunny and Isaac said. Ubuntu is what I know best >> from other >> applications, so it's probably what I'd use for this too, >> especially with >> the upcoming LTS release. That said, I have heard good things >> about FreeNAS >> especially, so it could be worth looking into as well. >> -- >> Tony Yarusso >> http://tonyyarusso.com/ > > > > From: "Tony Yarusso" <tonyyarusso at gmail.com> > Date: March 10, 2008 5:54:46 PM CDT > To: "TCLUG List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Server OS' > > > I'd second what Sunny and Isaac said. Ubuntu is what I know best > from other applications, so it's probably what I'd use for this too, > especially with the upcoming LTS release. That said, I have heard > good things about FreeNAS especially, so it could be worth looking > into as well. > -- > Tony Yarusso > http://tonyyarusso.com/ > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list ----- Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks