FreeNAS PC

[SanchoP]

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[gregmcc]

You will need to check the specs on the Freenas site, but I've got it running on a Pentium 75.
Freenas supports samba, nfs, rsync and a a few others. I use samba so I connect to my shares using \\server\share

 

[Ryder_JHB]

FreeNAS r0x0rs, and it just luuuves old hardware too!

 

[The_Techie]

I know there are a couple of FreeNAS punters here (/me winks at beanie) and I'm looking for an old PC to run it. Will a P3 be fine? I'll get the full specs later, but that's all I know so far.

It'll be plenty, FreeNAS will run on just about anything

BTW, how will the FreeNAS system appear to the other computer's? As another hard drive? Obviously I have to choose how to set it up, but a "hard drive" is preferable. Also, can "retrieval" backups be run from the NAS?

It'll show as a networked PC if you enable CIFS, though you can use Windows' "Map Network Drive" feature so that it shows up as just another hard drive

FreeNAS r0x0rs, and it just luuuves old hardware too!

 

[HillBilly]

Not to hijack the thread but the other NAS is OpenFiler: http://www.openfiler.com/

I've got this setup at home and it works really well. The are some differences between OpenFiler and FreeNAS (one being FreeNAS is BSD while OpenFiler is linux). This article, http://linuxbsdos.com/2008/10/06/freenas-vs-openfiler/ , gives you a quick comparison.

Both will 'advertise' shares that you can then map a windows drive to.