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 <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:

Ubuntu does just fine as a nas


On Sep 5, 2016 5:14 PM, "Mike Bushroe" <mbushroe@gmail.com> 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.

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