[kwlug-disc] storage suggestions

CrankyOldBugger crankyoldbugger at gmail.com
Wed Jul 31 16:08:50 EDT 2019


Regrettably, no.  Well, there is a proprietary option, assuming that it
still exists, but I can't see spending money for something that I'll only
use for a half hour at most...


On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 at 16:03, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 12:14:38PM -0400, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
> >
> > Worse-case scenario, I do have an ancient Windows Home Server headless
> > device that I could try to load FreeNAS on to (assuming it still works),
> > although loading FreeNAS on to a drive on a different system then
> migrating
> > it over to the headless box sounds a bit challenging. The WHS only has
> > fast-ethernet so it would probably be restricted to slower duties like
> > backups...
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions?  I've been poking around Amazon and
> just
> > not seeing something that I like.
>
> Couldn't you put in a video card into the WHS long enough to install
> FreeNAS? Maybe there is serial port support when installing the OS?
>
> - Paul
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