Hi FreeNAS forum. I am new to FreeNAS but have joined because I consider making a simple home server, mostly for file sharing, so that I can have one place for photographs. I have been in IT for 30+ years, working with mainframe, Unix, Windows, Linux. I like the Open Source philosophy, I think that produces better software, and personally I run Linux Mint on my laptop. So for fileserver I found FreeNAS, but given the hardware requirements maybe I should give up. Well, I'll have a look at it.