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.
>>>
>>> --
>> "Creativity is intelligence having fun." — Albert Einstein
>>
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