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General Discussion / Any chance of an SYNOLOGY type of FREENAS?
« on: June 06, 2015, 03:54:47 pm »
Huh? WTF am I talking about?
Let me explain.
I get the impression the people behind OPN are going to create what I have always dreamed PF could be. Ergo, I would love to see a similar project for FREENAS.
What has prevented me and others from using or offering FREENAS as a solution is the exact thing that makes it so great - it is only good at storage. Period. It does it very well and add-in ZFS and ECC RAM and you are blown away. Yet, this is exaclty what is bad about it. It does not do much else unless you want to go rolling in the deep of strange packages, CLI, duct tape and reading from the book of Dr. Frankenstein.
If someone could take that basic structure and make it function like Synology or QNAP - it would be shake the earth IMO. A Synology or QNAP device can be lean mean storage but can also offer more with their extensive library of add-ons. This gives SOHO and MICRO biz clients the most bang for the buck. Sadly, their low to midrange products do not offer ECC RAM or ZFS. Yet, I can build a $500 FREENAS box with ECC ram! UGHHH!
Any way, just food for thought guys. Maybe you have some friends either jealous of your OPN project or just bored and looking for something to dig into.
Let me explain.
I get the impression the people behind OPN are going to create what I have always dreamed PF could be. Ergo, I would love to see a similar project for FREENAS.
What has prevented me and others from using or offering FREENAS as a solution is the exact thing that makes it so great - it is only good at storage. Period. It does it very well and add-in ZFS and ECC RAM and you are blown away. Yet, this is exaclty what is bad about it. It does not do much else unless you want to go rolling in the deep of strange packages, CLI, duct tape and reading from the book of Dr. Frankenstein.
If someone could take that basic structure and make it function like Synology or QNAP - it would be shake the earth IMO. A Synology or QNAP device can be lean mean storage but can also offer more with their extensive library of add-ons. This gives SOHO and MICRO biz clients the most bang for the buck. Sadly, their low to midrange products do not offer ECC RAM or ZFS. Yet, I can build a $500 FREENAS box with ECC ram! UGHHH!
Any way, just food for thought guys. Maybe you have some friends either jealous of your OPN project or just bored and looking for something to dig into.