FreeNAS

[choppertastic]

I'm looking at getting a system up and running with freeNAS but I'm struggling to find exactly what I want.

I'm looking for a small chassis that can take at least 2 drives (IDE or SATA - I already have a 750G IDE). I'm also thinking of 8GB of ram.

Any ideas.. oh and yes I have a tight budget to do this on.

Cheers
James

[rayboulds]

James,

Have a look at Thecus, they are prebuilt NAS boxes. Very good I was running a N5200 for year before I upgraded my computers to macs. Or have a look at Shuttle, they are small form factor PCs.

Or get a cheap PC from ebay and build it up yourself

Steve

[steve_b]

These 2 places have stuff for small PC's, used both and they seemed to be good and delivery was prompt

[url=http://www.mini-itx.com/store]mini-itx.com - store - home[/url]

[url=http://linitx.com]LinITX.com[/url]

[Randall]

just buy a synology drive mate and be done with it, thats what i done will never look back, Its kinda like a Iphone you want to hate it then you get one and realise that it just works.

[davie]

if you are looking to run freenas you dont need 8gb of ram ive used an old pc with 1 gb of ram and a few old hard drives you dont need a graphics card once you have it set up i run mine strait into my wireless router and can upload and stream videos wirelessly no problems read the forums for it takes a bit off messing about till you get used to setting it upbut once you suss it they turn into great servers and you can add plenty of different drives to store on

[bigpops]

Buy the Hewlett packard micro server with £100 cash back. Nothing comes close for the price, but it doesn't have an ide interface. Hdds are so cheap these days, you might as well buy new.

What are you planning to do with this freenas box, because 8GB is complete overkill for most uses? It will run happily on 1GB.

Link for the server. Works out about £130:

[url=http://www.ebuyer.com/253305-hp-proliant-athlon-ii-neo-n36l-microserver-100-cashback-633724-421]HP ProLiant Athlon II Neo N36L MicroServer.. | Ebuyer.com[/url]

[Randall]

Edit: Hate it lol