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Cadet
- Joined
- Jan 14, 2017
- Messages
- 2
Hello to the FreeNAS community.
I have read and read and studied and experimented, and realized that I know just enough to really get myself into trouble. I appreciate the work that this group and the forum members have put into helping to solve problems and come up with best practice guides and simplified instructions for people like me who have a recreational interest in building and implementing a NAS solution for home and small business.
What lead me here was that we wanted a better backup solution for the files stored on the laptop. One thing led to another and I was looking at a prebuilt NAS solution at a retailer. I thought I could build something for half the price with twice the storage and many times the processing ability. So far I'm in for two thirds of the price and five times the headache. My server will be to store and share art and photography, backup data, store and serve up video.
I have collected some equipment and will be building a server over the next while as time permits. This site and the forums have helped me anticipate that I will have a problem with something, and that this forum is a great place to find help because someone has already had the problem. My selection of parts is just meeting the minimum requirements, but I have balanced the budget with risk. Even though, since making purchases on some components I have found that for the same or less price I could have sourced a better or planned for a better end result. But isn't that the way it always goes?
onward
I have read and read and studied and experimented, and realized that I know just enough to really get myself into trouble. I appreciate the work that this group and the forum members have put into helping to solve problems and come up with best practice guides and simplified instructions for people like me who have a recreational interest in building and implementing a NAS solution for home and small business.
What lead me here was that we wanted a better backup solution for the files stored on the laptop. One thing led to another and I was looking at a prebuilt NAS solution at a retailer. I thought I could build something for half the price with twice the storage and many times the processing ability. So far I'm in for two thirds of the price and five times the headache. My server will be to store and share art and photography, backup data, store and serve up video.
I have collected some equipment and will be building a server over the next while as time permits. This site and the forums have helped me anticipate that I will have a problem with something, and that this forum is a great place to find help because someone has already had the problem. My selection of parts is just meeting the minimum requirements, but I have balanced the budget with risk. Even though, since making purchases on some components I have found that for the same or less price I could have sourced a better or planned for a better end result. But isn't that the way it always goes?
onward