Dave On Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 4:28 PM Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 1:42 PM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > <SNIP> > > It does appear that several people are making it so NAS boxes can be > > easily built by us nerdy types and not be huge. Things are a bit > > interesting right now for hardware and such. Some parts are expensive, > > hard to find or just plain unavailable. Still, I suspect that this will > > get better later on. The good thing, people are working on this. There > > is interest in having a option. > > > > I know I've said this before but yes, people are working on it and it > is buildable by people like us. > > https://www.truenas.com/truenas-core/ > > Any old x64 PC and a few disks will get you up and running. It's > open source as much as BSD is open source. It's not Linux > so there was a little learning to do but it wasn't bad. > > Mine has a small SSD as the boot drive and then RAID1 pairs > running OpenZFS for storage. It's inexpensive if you have an > old computer to build on. > > Good luck, > Mark >
