Hello everyone
This is a real newbie question and I apologize if it's dumber than I think it is.
I need to set up a home NAS server, and I have a budget of exactly $0 for this. I do have a spare PC and two older 3TB external USB hard drives and I'm trying to decide how to leverage them.
My thoughts were that I'd set up a ZFS mirror on the computer running FreeBSD and then share it using NFS with the one Mac and 2 Debian computers that need to access it regularly.
This blog post gave me hope
https://blogs.oracle.com/constantin/entry/opensolaris_home_server_zfs_and
but it is 8 years old and I can't find anything newer about using cheapo hardware to do this.
I know it isn't ideal, but is there any reason that it's an absolutely terrible idea?
If it is, do you have any better suggestions for these 2 drives and old computer to accomplish some form of hard drive redundancy and network home folders?
All files on the zpool will be backed up to another 4TB drive that lives at a different location
Many thanks
Tim
This is a real newbie question and I apologize if it's dumber than I think it is.
I need to set up a home NAS server, and I have a budget of exactly $0 for this. I do have a spare PC and two older 3TB external USB hard drives and I'm trying to decide how to leverage them.
My thoughts were that I'd set up a ZFS mirror on the computer running FreeBSD and then share it using NFS with the one Mac and 2 Debian computers that need to access it regularly.
This blog post gave me hope
https://blogs.oracle.com/constantin/entry/opensolaris_home_server_zfs_and
but it is 8 years old and I can't find anything newer about using cheapo hardware to do this.
I know it isn't ideal, but is there any reason that it's an absolutely terrible idea?
If it is, do you have any better suggestions for these 2 drives and old computer to accomplish some form of hard drive redundancy and network home folders?
All files on the zpool will be backed up to another 4TB drive that lives at a different location
Many thanks
Tim