(April 24, 2022, 07:36 PM)Sinful Wrote: (April 24, 2022, 06:56 PM)hexen Wrote: I like having a NAS at home, but I have no need to access my stuff when away from home. So I got a NAS with my stuff on it, access it from around the house on whatever computer I'm using at the time.
- How much was it?
- Any recommendations?
I don't know exactly, since I just used an old computer (it's about six years old and a even a budget build for the time).
But I did buy a couple of 12 TB WD external drives that I shucked and used for soft raid They were on sale at the time for less than $200 USD so it was a pretty good deal. I used OpenBSD for my OS, but if I were to do it again I'd probably use something like FreeNAS or the like, meant for this purpose. I just use it for media (music, movies) and the like.
I mostly did this for fun and to learn. I don't have any good recommendations except that if you like to play around like I do and mess with old part and try different OS, using your old shit is a pretty fun way to make use of it. Otherwise, if you just want to get something up and running without the headaches there are commercially available NAS boxes that I understand are pretty easy to set up.