[kwlug-disc] storage suggestions

[Benjamin Tompkins]

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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