6 reasons you should use Ubuntu for your own NAS

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Thanks Alexander, Ted, and Rusty!!

I took a quick look at TrueNAS and it appears the boot drive is only for 
booting?

I've got lots of 1TB and less drives so that would not be a problem.

I have a 10 year old Dell i5 4 cores/4 threads with 16GB of RAM, which 
will take two drives.  I also have an 8GB backup drive that I have never 
used. I haven't opened the box.  I got it on a very good sale so I 
bought it. I could use that drive.  I seem to recall that at some point 
the bigger drivers would not work well with old hardware.  I hope that 
is not an issue.

My daily driver is also an old Dell running Kubuntu 24.04.  I have a 
Win10 laptop and my wife has a Win11 computer.  I'd like to connect all 
three.

Any thoughts are much appreciate!!

Thanks,
Keith



On 2024-09-05 17:05, Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> On 9/5/24 08:22, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> Hi,
>> ...
>> I'm not sure there is a benefit of using Linux with SMB and/or NFS 
>> other than having more exposure to Ubuntu.
>> 
> I'd say performance will be better with Linux (or other unix-like OS) 
> than almost any other OS you can come up with.  Usually, anyway.
> 
> 
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