[Discuss] N40L on sale for $179.99 at PC Connection Express

[cra at WPI.EDU (Chuck Anderson)]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 09:54:24PM -0500, Richard Pieri wrote:
> I'm seeing it listed at $250 right now.  Given the company profile
> I'm guessing that they're really a front-end for many sellers and
> those sellers set the prices that PCCE displays.  $250 is well worth
> the price.  Other than the complete failure of FreeNAS to work,
> which could easily have been my own fault, I've really only two
> complaints about the box.

I got one from NewEgg for $250 without the Hitachi DeathStar and am
running FreeNAS off a USB stick without problems.  I picked up a
couple Seagate 2TB green/LP drives from Microcenter for it.

> The second is zfs-fuse write performance is pretty poor.  There are
> some tuning options I want to tweak to see if I can improve that.  I
> may need to realign everything by rebuilding the RAID-Z on
> partitions instead of raw disks.  I count it a learning experience:
> I get to play with zpool send and zpool receive to see how they
> work.

Has anyone played with BtrFS yet?  The next release of Oracle
Enterprise Linux will use it by default, even before Fedora (Fedora 17
was going to default to BtrFS, but it was deferred again to Fedora
18).