From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 26 18:40:21 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EC9F28EA for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 18:40:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tds-solutions.net (tds-solutions.net [192.99.32.153]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C394224BA for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 18:40:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tds-solutions.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tds-solutions.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 346AEFF1B7 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 14:40:07 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at tds-solutions.net Received: from tds-solutions.net ([127.0.0.1]) by tds-solutions.net (tds-solutions.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id zHTHe-4X0q4f for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 14:40:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.35] (24-177-51-95.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com [24.177.51.95]) (Authenticated sender: sorressean) by tds-solutions.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D03A8FF1AB for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 14:40:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <53D3F606.2090308@tysdomain.com> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 14:40:06 -0400 From: "Littlefield, Tyler" Reply-To: tyler@tysdomain.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: affordable NAS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 18:40:22 -0000 Hello all: I was looking at the NAS minis, and while they look amazing they're also way expensive. I was interested to see if someone has a good solution for a cheap small NAS system that I could either build or purchase that wouldn't cost nearly as much. I'm looking for freebsd-compatible hardware with at least a gigabit ethernet card. I'll be dropping in the harddrives, I'm thinking raid 10 (though it doesn't have to be--I just wanted the striping for a larger disk space plus redundancy via mirror), with maybe 4 2 tb drives. I'll be using stock FreeBSD on this: I have no clue how accessible the FreeNAS web frontend or any of the other software would be for something like this with a screen reader. Any thoughts/ideas would be awesome. Thanks, -- Take care, Ty http://tds-solutions.net He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.