Dave

On Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 4:28 PM Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 1:42 PM Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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.
> >
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> I know I've said this before but yes, people are working on it and it
> is buildable by people like us.
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> https://www.truenas.com/truenas-core/
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> 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.
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> 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
>