Depending on your requirements, and price point. how about an INTEL NUC. I just got an I3 model for about $500 from amazon. You might be able to find the older model on sale and save about $100. The nice thing about this system is VERY quiet, small enough to just grab and go, don't need to worry about multiple boxes. It will run Ubuntu with no issues, I have Scientific Linux running for my media server (PLEX) with minimal issues. 1 of: *Samsung 850 EVO - 250GB - M.2 SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-N5E250BW)* $99.54 1 of: *Kingston Technology HyperX Impact 16GB RAM DDR4 2133 HX421S13IBK2/16* $75.99 1 of: *Intel NUC Kit NUC6i3SYH BOXNUC6I3SYH Silver/Black* $289.00 On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 5:16 PM, Stephen Partington wrote: > Ubuntu does just fine as a nas > > On Sep 5, 2016 5:14 PM, "Mike Bushroe" wrote: > >> What about NAS backups? Everything I have seen so far is either very >> expensive (tape drives), or very tedious (recordable DVD or BlRay) I >> started building a FreeNas, but the BSD that it runs on would not read the >> extra SATA card I bought, so I had to buy more and more expensive. Then the >> motherboard wouldn't boot off the USB. I still have a tall box small pile >> of drives that I never got to NAS for me. I understand that the latest >> Ubuntu will do ZFS, perhaps I should put all the pieces back together and >> see if I can configure an Ubuntu system to act as a NAS server. >> >> Mike >> >> On 09/01/2016 07:58 AM, Anon Anon wrote: >> >>> >>> Get a nas from Fry's electronics. Well worth the money. Also, buy a fire >>> proof safe and mount the nas in the safe. >>> >>> Will save your life if you have a fire. They make electronics safes. >>> Don't rush into a burning house for hard drives. Pets and wives only bruh. >>> >>> -- >> "Creativity is intelligence having fun." — Albert Einstein >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >