Tag: FREENAS

Christmas is coming, and you're about to have a ton of time off. Some of that time will be spent energetically tearing apart beautifully-wrapped gifts, and eating food is certainly next on the list of priorities. Obviously you have to play with your new gifts (or put on your new socks), but after that... after the postprandial sofa-surfing grunts and burps and farts... well, there isn't a whole ...

I've often thought about dropping a couple of hard drives in an old PC and using it as a network file server, but the task of setting up the OS and getting things running seems daunting. FreeNAS, short for Free Network-Attached Storage, looks like it might be the solution I'vee been looking for. It's a 15MB download that includes a FreeBSD OS, CIFS (Samba), FTP, and NFS support, software RAID, and ...