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...le redundancy, which means two disks worth of usable space). The OS is on an internal memory stick, the spinning drives are all data drives. It's a nice solid piece of hardware and suitable for home & small office. I also have FreeNAS running in a larger system which is based on an Intel DBS1200V3RPS motherboard, a Xeon processor, lots of ECC memory, and 36TB of disk. (6 SATA connectors on board, and 6TB drives were the largest available at the time; it will get expanded soon via an add-on RAID card running in JBOD mode.) It's a solid system. FreeNAS will do almost anything you'd exp...

I have an original-label Infrant (now NetGear) ReadyNAS storage appliance that's been running for 8+ years. Except for replacing its power supply, it has not skipped a beat in all this time. I use it primarily as a backup device (via NFS) for a couple of Linux machines, (via SMB) for a couple of Windows PC's, and (via ftp) for web sites at my hosting provider. SMART+ reporting shows