I think you should go with Microsoft Server 2008. I think their having a
sale, since it is April 1st.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok, I'll be the first to say it.. I would change the Operating System.
I would also consider moving up to 1 Tb
Jim Peterson wrote:
I'd change the OS from XP Pro to FreeNAS. I've never had to restart mine
in the 3 months it's been running, and the backups made to it are
perfect every time. Plus, it has the capability to send e-mail alerts
when something does go wrong, or if you just want the peace
I've never played with OpenFiler, so I can't speak to that. Sorry!
On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 10:08 -0500, Russ Crawford wrote:
Jim Peterson wrote:
I'd change the OS from XP Pro to FreeNAS. I've never had to restart mine
in the 3 months it's been running, and the backups made to it are
FreeNAS is really cool, but I find it limiting for having a full blown pc
there. If Im going to have a full bore pc as my NAS (which I do) I run a
full bore OS. Currently have like Ubuntu server 6.10 on it or something
like that, the last LTS version. Since its just for here at home its pretty
For reliability sake...
You might consider two drives and mirror them for your 'system' drives,
where the
NAS client data would be on the raid. If you go with a hardware raid
controller
that is off MOBO, consider one that will allow raid6, if your budget
allows. This way
Murphy is less likely
