Hello,
I just joined this community, but I have been reading quite a bit around. My main concern right now is developing a dependable solution to backup all the stuff we have around the house, mainly 3 MacBooks and 3 Windows PC's. After trying several USB drives which worked for a few months only, I'm close to pulling the trigger on a freeNAS full fledged solution. I'm thinking that the brains of the machine will be based on the Supermicro X11SSH-F-O motherboard paired to an Intel Xeon E3-1220 or E3-1230 v5 Skylake. Two (or four!) sticks of Samsung M391A2K43BB1-CPB should round things up nicely. The M.2 port should allow me to add an SSD disc. A bunch of WD Reds (4 GB each) will provide all the storage I need, although I'm puzzled by the recommendation on the Supermicro site to get WD Gold drives (for instance, WD4002FYYZ)...
About me. I have built 4 or 5 PC's in the past and I love hacking around with Linux. I don't mind Windows, but given the choice I'd say give me macOS any day over Windows (there is a Unix core under the covers!)
I just joined this community, but I have been reading quite a bit around. My main concern right now is developing a dependable solution to backup all the stuff we have around the house, mainly 3 MacBooks and 3 Windows PC's. After trying several USB drives which worked for a few months only, I'm close to pulling the trigger on a freeNAS full fledged solution. I'm thinking that the brains of the machine will be based on the Supermicro X11SSH-F-O motherboard paired to an Intel Xeon E3-1220 or E3-1230 v5 Skylake. Two (or four!) sticks of Samsung M391A2K43BB1-CPB should round things up nicely. The M.2 port should allow me to add an SSD disc. A bunch of WD Reds (4 GB each) will provide all the storage I need, although I'm puzzled by the recommendation on the Supermicro site to get WD Gold drives (for instance, WD4002FYYZ)...
About me. I have built 4 or 5 PC's in the past and I love hacking around with Linux. I don't mind Windows, but given the choice I'd say give me macOS any day over Windows (there is a Unix core under the covers!)