As a noob to this type of tech I appreciate I'll cop a lot of flack for this, so here goes.
Having had a change in career from catering to more desk based work, I've always wanted to learn new stuff & challenge myself.
I liked the idea of building a NAS and read as much as I could, trying to make sense of it all as I went.
There's no doubting that I make some mistakes along the way, but rectified them as soon as I could (buying a small cheap barebones PC was just the start, with its IDE connectors).
Due to cost saving (bear in mind this is project just to see if I could do it) for £40 I had a Celeron, 2gb, 160gb hdd computer in a case I liked (remarkable considering I'm on a budget).
FreeNAS has been nothing but a pain in my hole. I've read articles that say v9.2.1.9 will run on this spec, & maybe it will, but not in my experience. I've read so many 'getting started' posts & checklist & Youtube vids that my head hurts. Often the GUI doesn't match what is being talked about.
Basically, it is fine talking about x,y & z in technical details, but that doesn't help a noob who'll probably be reading it, which I thought was the whole point of forums.
So I guess what I'm looking for is a level of help in layman's terms that an idiot could understand, I'm pretty sure I'll be roundly mocked for this post (yes have a little experience of forums in the past).
Any help is much appreciated, as I'm now at the end of my tether.
Having had a change in career from catering to more desk based work, I've always wanted to learn new stuff & challenge myself.
I liked the idea of building a NAS and read as much as I could, trying to make sense of it all as I went.
There's no doubting that I make some mistakes along the way, but rectified them as soon as I could (buying a small cheap barebones PC was just the start, with its IDE connectors).
Due to cost saving (bear in mind this is project just to see if I could do it) for £40 I had a Celeron, 2gb, 160gb hdd computer in a case I liked (remarkable considering I'm on a budget).
FreeNAS has been nothing but a pain in my hole. I've read articles that say v9.2.1.9 will run on this spec, & maybe it will, but not in my experience. I've read so many 'getting started' posts & checklist & Youtube vids that my head hurts. Often the GUI doesn't match what is being talked about.
Basically, it is fine talking about x,y & z in technical details, but that doesn't help a noob who'll probably be reading it, which I thought was the whole point of forums.
So I guess what I'm looking for is a level of help in layman's terms that an idiot could understand, I'm pretty sure I'll be roundly mocked for this post (yes have a little experience of forums in the past).
Any help is much appreciated, as I'm now at the end of my tether.
