Tanks Dave
On Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 9:46 PM David Rosenbaum <rosenbaumd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 >> >