Response from: Dez Blanchfield

Hi Andrew, thanks for the link to my web site TheStroageForum.COM and the review I did on FreeNAS. You're so right with your comment "if you're not supporting open source in some way, then why not?" - indeed open source is all too often the catch cry of the new tech wave, but there is a solid place for open source, and I for one know through it's use and being hands on myself, that open source is a force to be reconed with and people either need to "get on the party bus, or get out of the way" ;-) Stay tuned as I’ll be running a follow up series of reveiws and tests on related open source storage solutions, and platforms, with the aim to running a monthly detailed hands on audit and review of all and any NAS platform, open source or not, that I can get my hands on. Love your site and again thanks for picking up my article. Let’s share cross links ;-) Cheers, Dez http://TheStroageForum.COM

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Response from: Dez Blanchfield

Hi Andrew, thanks for the link to my web site TheStroageForum.COM and the review I did on FreeNAS. You're so right with your comment "if you're not supporting open source in some way, then why not?" - indeed open source is all too often the catch cry of the new tech wave, but there is a solid place for open source, and I for one know through it's use and being hands on myself, that open source is a force to be reconed with and people either need to "get on the party bus, or get out of the way" ;-) Stay tuned as I’ll be running a follow up series of reveiws and tests on related open source storage solutions, and platforms, with the aim to running a monthly detailed hands on audit and review of all and any NAS platform, open source or not, that I can get my hands on. Love your site and again thanks for picking up my article. Let’s share cross links ;-) Cheers, Dez http://TheStroageForum.COM
http://WebSearch.COM.AU
http://CradleTechnologies.COM
http://www.Blanchfield.COM.AU

Response from: Addiction Treatment (Check me out!)

When I first read this blog I remained astonished by the statement:
"I saw $75k performance from a $5k box running a beta NAS software platform."
It's true I always supported (at least morally) the open-source community, but I never thought they would get this far. But how far will they get until they are bought by a big software producer?

Response from: naughty (Check me out!)

indeed open source is all too often the catch cry of the new tech wave, but there is a solid place for open source, and I for one know through it's use and being hands on myself, that open source is a force to be reconed with and people either need to "get on the party bus, or get out of the way