[ale] NAS recommendations

[Kyle Brieden]

A couple years ago, I bought a mini-ITX board with a bunch of SATA  
ports, a Pentium G3220 CPU, 16G of RAM, and 6 WD Red HDDs.  I stuffed 
that into a Lian Li mini-ITX case that felt purpose designed to be a 
NAS, and slapped FreeNAS on it.  I've been *supremely* happy with it for 
VMs, backups, photography storage, media storage and serving, etc.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811112339



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Very respectfully,
Kyle Brieden

On 15-06-2017 09:29, Ken Cochran wrote:
> Any ALEr Words of Wisdom wrt desktop NAS?
> Looking for something appropriate for, but not limited to, photography.
> Some years ago Drobo demoed at (I think) AUUG.  (Might've been ALE.)
> Was kinda nifty for the time but I'm sure things have improved since.
> Synology?  QNAP?
> Build something myself?  JBOD?
> Looks like they all running Linux inside these days.
> Rackmount ones look lots more expensive.
> Ideas?  What to look for?  Stay away from?  Thanks, Ken
> 
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