Compact Freebsd 'appliance'

[John Almberg]

>
> I have a couple of Via Artigo a2000 boxes, one running FreeBSD-STABLE
> (post 7.2) and the other running FreeNAS.  Both work well.  I've seen
> posts from one fellow who's tracking a bug with the vge interface
> under very heavy load, but both of mine stream music and do Time
> Machine backups via netatalk without any trouble.  Logic Supply has a
> custom FreeNAS build that recognizes the disks as SATA and that adds
> support for Gb ethernet to the NIC (rolling in changes from -STABLE to
> the 6.x series on which the stable FreeNAS is based).
>
>   http://www.logicsupply.com/blog/2009/05/11/custom-a2000-freenas- 
> image/
>
> They're not the cheapest place to buy the box, but they're close and
> they do good support (I'm just a happy customer and I helped with the
> FreeNAS image, no other association).
>
> They're not Living Room quiet, but they're about as unobtrusive as you
> can get in a little box w/out going fanless.


Also very nice looking boxes. Thanks!

-- John