Last night the hard drive in my wifes computer started to make that “click, click, click” sound that can only mean one thing – imminent head failure on the drive. Since the hard drive was only an 8GB hard drive it also offered a chance to “upgrade” to an old 20GB hard drive that I [...]

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While we were looking for a network storage solution for our organization we found quite a few open-source and proprietary options available. One of the more interesting open-source solutions was FreeNAS. FreeNAS is very well featured, quite well developed and completely free.
Below is a partial feature list for FreeNAS:

Built upon FreeBSD 6
Configured and managed through [...]

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I am considering one of these options at the moment.
This came about from 3 reasons – my main PC at home crashed – did the lovely blue screen on me and I had to rebuild it and before I could do this – I had to find 30Gb where I could backup all my files!! [...]

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We have just installed a whole load of new servers at work including file servers. These are intended for people to back up their work -  but as with the old system people forget to copy it onto the server and then are upset when they lose work at their terminals.
However we recently found this [...]

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