Free Open Source FreeNAS Server - Windows Home Server Substitute
Want to utilize your old hardware? Don’t want to pay for Windows Home Server?
Today an average computer user has a variety of machines: desktops, laptops, Wi-Fi-enabled smartphones, and networked game consoles. Most probably have terabytes of ripped movies, music, and photos. Having a central location where all of those files lived that was accessible to all your computing devices would be nice. That would also be a place where you could back up all of your computers, host your media files for streaming to your console or other computers, and use as a file share for your whole network.
All of the above can be done with Windows Home Server but the license costs 100 bucks, and doesn’t necessarily play well with non-Windows machines. FreeNAS is a free, open-source FreeBSD derivative, and it’s as powerful as Windows Home Server and more importantly it runs well on salvaged hardware. FreeNAS plays well with Windows, Apple, and *nix systems.
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