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    Creating my own custom NAS (advice) ?

    Sorry for the late reply... Got faculty exams :( I am simply doing this as a tiny little project to have fun with. I am going to combine this with VPN using either DDWRT's built-in features or another custom PfSense machine(probably PfSense), and just have fun with it for some time. I am also...
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    Creating my own custom NAS (advice) ?

    Awesome. Thanks a lot :) Can't wait to get started. If it wasn't 4AM (and exam days in the faculty) I'd have started right now xD Anyways, really appreciate it. Will post my progress here when I am able to
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    Creating my own custom NAS (advice) ?

    As much as I agree about FreeNAS, it requires 8gb of RAM, minimum... So this machine can't run it, at least according to the official minimum requirements posted on their official site. Since I have never heard of samba. Would you be kind enough to share some pointers as to how I would go about...
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    Creating my own custom NAS (advice) ?

    Hi guys, this is my first post. And after reading the rules about this section, I am hoping I am not violating any rules. I currently have a Linksys WRT54GL, running on DDWRT. And a VERY old PC. Now the problem is, I am trying to turn this old PC into a NAS... Unfortunately I don't know what...
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