What is FreeNAS:
FreeNAS is a small (less than 32Mo) Operating System based on FreeBSD 6 that provide Free Network-Attached Storage services (CIFS, FTP and NFS).
Features of FreeNAS:
I'm currently thinking of buying a REALLY small computer case, load it with a Mirco-ATX motherboard and a few large Hard drives I'll order and have laying around, (of-course with other components such as RAM but w/o a monitor) and hid it in my house somewhere. (Tell me if you know of an insanely small case I can use plz)FreeNAS support in the current release:
* Filesystem: UFS, FAT32, EXT2/EXT3, NTFS (limited read-only)
* Protocol: CIFS (samba) , FTP, NFS, SSH, RSYNC and AFP
* Hard drive: ATA/SATA, SCSI, USB and Firewire
* GPT/EFI partitionning for hard drive bigger than 2TB
* Networks cards: All supported by FreeBSD 6 (including wireless card!)
* Boot from USB key
* Hardware RAID cards: All supported by FreeBSD 6
* Software RAID 0, 1 and 5
* Management of the groups and the users (Local User authentication and Microsoft Domain)
Why are you still reading this? Get up! Get those PC parts you have laying around and build yourself a nice little NAS server you can use for yourself!! (Bonus points if you can tell me how to install a SVN server on it... PLZ!)
Note: I understand the code is not at version one, but hey, I'm using it and i'm not having that much of an issue. (Only in two pages on the administration panel b/c they are not yet fully programmed; it tells you that.)