[kwlug-disc] storage suggestions

[Paul Nijjar]

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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