[kwlug-disc] storage suggestions

[CrankyOldBugger]

IIRC, it's an Acer H341...

On Wed, Jul 31, 2019, 4:57 PM Benjamin Tompkins, <bjtompkins at gmail.com>
wrote:

> What's the make/model of the WHS device?
>
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 4:09 PM CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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