04-09-2010, 06:44 PM
Hey,
I am looking into building a home NAS box.
I have already tried FreeNAS but couldn't get it to work, it was temperamental at boot and when it did, it wouldn't install to harddrive.
So, i'm after an alternative - I'll be using a 40GB IDE drive to have the NAS distro on and a 1TB SATA to hold my actual files.
The system will be used as a backup every few weeks, it needs to be accessible in Windows and Linux.
Also a print server function would be nice.
I have Linux experience so that isn't a problem.
Any ideas / past experience?
Mark.
I am looking into building a home NAS box.
I have already tried FreeNAS but couldn't get it to work, it was temperamental at boot and when it did, it wouldn't install to harddrive.
So, i'm after an alternative - I'll be using a 40GB IDE drive to have the NAS distro on and a 1TB SATA to hold my actual files.
The system will be used as a backup every few weeks, it needs to be accessible in Windows and Linux.
Also a print server function would be nice.
I have Linux experience so that isn't a problem.
Any ideas / past experience?
Mark.