Project BYON (Build Your Own NAS)

[Tears4Fears]

Build Your Own NAS (BYON)

Hello everyone!

I am from Singapore and 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.

In project BYON , I've picked FreeNAS as my 1st setup. FreeNAS tests results has just been published hours ago. I welcome any suggestions or discussions related to NAS here, especially on FreeNAS performance.

 

[cyberjock]

Moving this to offtopic. It's the most appropriate category for this in my opinion.

 

[Tears4Fears]

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

If you are interested, take a look.
Cheers.

 

[Tears4Fears]

3rd setup - U-NAS testing results are out!

3.4.1 U-NAS Performance Test
3.4.2 U-NAS Functionality Test

I will post Benchmark Charts soon.

If you are interested, take a look.
Cheers.

 

[Tears4Fears]

I've finally completed BYON including the documentations. :)

Here are the final 3 posts. Take a look if it interest you.

3.5.1 CIFS Benchmarks
3.5.2 iSCSI Benchmarks
3.6 Summary

Last but not least, please participate in this poll for two short questions related to BYON.

3.7 BYON Poll