2014-05-28, 05:09
He has an existing machine, leave the drives in it, share them to the network, watch the content from the existing machine, shove it into a closet if you don't want to see or hear it. I wouldn't buy a pre-built NAS ever, FreeNAS or unRAID on cheap hardware is way way better IMO. I've been using unRAID for at least 7 years or so and haven't ever lost data (shrug). 30TB of storage currently...