Anyone have a guide to building a NAS using basic off-the-shelf components?
I'm trying to build a NAS from old parts that being laying around.
Need the recommendation of a secure free OS with small footprint so that I can maximise the storage space.
Use Linux and mdadm for a softraid solution, and you have to install some kind of server so other pc's can connect to the raid, like a samba or ftp server. A samba server is common among commercial NAS.
I don't know about this FreeNAS Server. After reading the article i find it rather useless because of the limitation. It's easy to install a linux distribution on your own and setup mdadm and samba, and it's way more flexible, in case you need some more features, you can always install gl later
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One limitation of the software is the lack of granularity in setting access rights to shares. The local user authentication model is an all-or-nothing affair. You can't set some users to be read-only or others to only have access to certain shares. Once a user is authenticated, he has full access to all the shared storage.
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