[kwlug-disc] storage suggestions

[Benjamin Tompkins]

If you are up for a little hands on work with it, it appears there's a 4x
PCIe slot on the motherboard.  If you have a 1x PCIe GPU you may be able to
get some output to it.  Also, it appears that it has a 10/100/1000 NIC.

On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 6:10 PM CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> IIRC, it's an Acer H341...
>
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019, 4:57 PM Benjamin Tompkins, <bjtompkins at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> What's the make/model of the WHS device?
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 4:09 PM CrankyOldBugger <
>> crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Regrettably, no.  Well, there is a proprietary option, assuming that it
>>> still exists, but I can't see spending money for something that I'll only
>>> use for a half hour at most...
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 at 16:03, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <
>>> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 12:14:38PM -0400, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > Worse-case scenario, I do have an ancient Windows Home Server headless
>>>> > device that I could try to load FreeNAS on to (assuming it still
>>>> works),
>>>> > although loading FreeNAS on to a drive on a different system then
>>>> migrating
>>>> > it over to the headless box sounds a bit challenging. The WHS only has
>>>> > fast-ethernet so it would probably be restricted to slower duties like
>>>> > backups...
>>>> >
>>>> > Does anyone have any suggestions?  I've been poking around Amazon and
>>>> just
>>>> > not seeing something that I like.
>>>>
>>>> Couldn't you put in a video card into the WHS long enough to install
>>>> FreeNAS? Maybe there is serial port support when installing the OS?
>>>>
>>>> - Paul
>>>>
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