Arman
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- Jan 28, 2016
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What do you mean? Like run a seperate windows machine on another set of hardware?When anyone talks about dual booting, I have to ask, why not just run a windows machine and share your files out that way? No dual booting required. You never interrupt your NAS storage and you can use it as a desktop/workstation.
You are trying to mash 2 things together that do not belong together in the same box.
You gain NOTHING by setting up a dual boot system. Freenas gains you NOTHING but headaches in a setup like this.
My perspective is different to yours. The way I think about it is: I have a beast of a computer. Xeon processor, up to 64Gb of ram, all the storage ill ever need, a motherboard which could take a powerful graphics card. And all that is holding me back is a software? It's like saying everyone is a household needs their own car. But do they, really? If one person got behind the wheel in turns then everyone will be happy unless one person needs to be behind the wheel 24/7... (Which is not the case for my server)
Setting up a dual-boot system SAFELY has many benefits! I get to save a ton of money, i get to keep all my data, i get to use the system as a powerful workstation which lowers video rendering times significantly, i get to play games games (high settings) on it occasionally... All i need to do is seperate the HDDs which belong to the opposite OS's safely and everything will go smoothly.