Hi forum,
i am using strictly linux in prod environment, but i switched to freenas on my file servers and xen storage. i tend to neglect my home stuff. now at home i have a cable router without wifi from my cable company ( they are so impertinent to charge an exorbitant extra sum per month for enabling the existing wifi on that which i just find annoying ), connected to that is my older fritzbox wifi router that also works as a network storage with a single USB disk to it ( but it has no NFS functionality which i miss ), and connected to this are my computers and a small beaglebone as MPD audio server. my backup consists of numerous USB disks i keep changing when i happen to think of it.
now i want a freenas raid system for my data ( hate changing disks all the time and manually backup. easy snapshotting really is something i dont want to miss anymore ) and a more energy saving design, eliminatin beaglebone and fritzbox as the cable router also can work as a switch for my existing computers ( i am an atypical kind of admin i think, i only have 1 linux and 1 windows box ). i thought about getting some small factor energy saving board ( maybe even ARM ), connect my disks, a wifi card and a soundcard and use it as always-on accesspoint, mediacenter ( with hdmi ), storage and the possibility to add an encrypted array.
I do know how to do this all on linux, even on a pi or beaglebone, and build a system that does exactly that ( very slow on arm boards though ) , but i really like the undoubtetly higher security of BSD and the easy handlingh of FreeNAS. as i said, i am lazy with my stuff at home but paranoid enough to want it safe by all means.
did somebody do something like that, build a kind of green all purpose box? is there a plugin for wifi cards? or how to implant which working drivers for which wifi card into the freenas BSD OS? i want to switch on my computers ( that have and use a lot of power ) only when really needed, not for watching netflix, surfing and stuff.
i am using strictly linux in prod environment, but i switched to freenas on my file servers and xen storage. i tend to neglect my home stuff. now at home i have a cable router without wifi from my cable company ( they are so impertinent to charge an exorbitant extra sum per month for enabling the existing wifi on that which i just find annoying ), connected to that is my older fritzbox wifi router that also works as a network storage with a single USB disk to it ( but it has no NFS functionality which i miss ), and connected to this are my computers and a small beaglebone as MPD audio server. my backup consists of numerous USB disks i keep changing when i happen to think of it.
now i want a freenas raid system for my data ( hate changing disks all the time and manually backup. easy snapshotting really is something i dont want to miss anymore ) and a more energy saving design, eliminatin beaglebone and fritzbox as the cable router also can work as a switch for my existing computers ( i am an atypical kind of admin i think, i only have 1 linux and 1 windows box ). i thought about getting some small factor energy saving board ( maybe even ARM ), connect my disks, a wifi card and a soundcard and use it as always-on accesspoint, mediacenter ( with hdmi ), storage and the possibility to add an encrypted array.
I do know how to do this all on linux, even on a pi or beaglebone, and build a system that does exactly that ( very slow on arm boards though ) , but i really like the undoubtetly higher security of BSD and the easy handlingh of FreeNAS. as i said, i am lazy with my stuff at home but paranoid enough to want it safe by all means.
did somebody do something like that, build a kind of green all purpose box? is there a plugin for wifi cards? or how to implant which working drivers for which wifi card into the freenas BSD OS? i want to switch on my computers ( that have and use a lot of power ) only when really needed, not for watching netflix, surfing and stuff.
