For a business use, some smb shares but mostly xcp-ng backups, what hardware is recommended? I normally use Synology but Truenas has intrigued me lately. Does anyone sell a hardware box similar to the Synology box? I see ixsystems sells some on their website but it appears dated.
Any server / workstation , brand new or second hand will do as long it has enough hard drive slots spare
Just make sure the hard drive controller is HBA (non raid card) , as truenas needs to manage the drives directly.
Allow two drives for the operating system (mirrored), then add the amount of drives based on the zfs raid to the amount of drive space required.
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Do you purchase directly from ixsystems? For SMB’s, say 30 users or so, which model do you use most often? In my case this will be used for clients as mapped drives as virtual disks are starting to get huge and not usually recommended.
We are a reseller so yes we buy direct, and we buy the model based on if they need high availability, what performance they need, and how much storage they need.