On 3/5/2013 5:18 PM, Chris Weisiger wrote: > I essentially configured the software raid to create a home server and not have to worry about individual drives. I've built a collection of several several gigs of music and pictures. Enough to look into a raid system. Plus it is alot cheaper than a hardware raid setup. > Plus I want to do testing with it to possible use it for some of the clients that the business I work for do work for for basic file server services I am using FreeNAS for my home fileserver, and really liking it. its a turnkey NAS oriented build of FreeBSD. the OS itself boots from a 4GB USB stick, so ALL your disks can be in the data raid configuration (I'm using 4x3TB RAIDZ, which is equivalent to raid5). its entirely web managed. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast