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.
>
I know I've said this before but yes, people are working on it and it
is buildable by people like us.
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