FreeNAS makes it easy to add storage to home networks

NewsForge ^ | Monday January 22, 2007 | Joe Barr

[nickcarraway]

FreeNAS is a small, powerful, full-featured implementation of FreeBSD as a network-attached storage device. (It also happens to be January's Project of the Month at SourceForge.net.) If you're a Linux user like me, the BSD-speak used for devices and such might give you pause, but other than that small caveat, installation and usage shouldn't be a problem. It's powerful enough to be used in the enterprise, but it's friendly enough so that even a typical home office user can take advantage of it. Here's how I created an easy-to-use NAS device for rsync backups and FTP server on my LAN.

[nickcarraway]

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[Not now, Not ever!]

A network accessible hard drive is really a neat thing.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I've been looking at some units but this sounds better.

[snowsislander]

You might also be interested in AoE (ATA over Ethernet.)