I’ve had a recent goal of getting a NAS up and running to properly backup all the accumulating data our family generates. Pictures, Video, and Windows PC Backups are the primary goal for proper backup. Linux is the obvious solution for my implementation and have been trying a FreeNAS (BSD based) install running on some old hardware. I’ve had a lot of struggles with FreeNAS, but in hindsight I think almost all my problems can be traced back to hardware incompatibilities. My FreeNAS server appears to be VERY stable now that I have given up on my external ESATA and USB drives. With the external devices I had lots of kernel panics.
