http://www.winextra.com/forums/tags/network-storage Bring back the eXtra in Windows en-US Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:29:18 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.winextra.com/forums/search.php http://www.winextra.com/forums/topic/8481#post-42204 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:07:36 +0000 PJ 42204@http://www.winextra.com/forums/ <p>I've been in the market for a media server for my home. Being the skinflint that I can be sometimes, I figured I'd make one of my own from spare parts lying around the house. At the time I had three desktops sitting around unused, and four laptops, a PS3, several handled devices and a desktop in use. I was looking for a solution that would allow me to: 1. Collect all my music in one place and serve it out, 2. Collect all my videos in one place and serve it out to whatever device needs it, 3. Provide Network Attached Storage capabilities to the family, 4. Allow bittorrent downloads/storage, 5. Centralized server to log into from the internet and access my documents/media.</p> <p>This post has been <a href="http://www.winextra.com/index.php/2010/01/02/setting-up-and-using-freenas/" target="_blank">moved to it's proper home on the WinExtra Blog so feel free to read the complete post there</a> as well as post any comments for PJ </p>