freeNAS

more digging implies something which is actually pretty heavy to deal with. The *minimum* system requirements for FreeNAS8 are now 4GB memory.

What?

When did FreeNAS morph from a system you could run on pretty much any hardware into one which required a serious machine? I know, hardware is supposed to be cheap, but still, this has made me really wonder.

I've downloaded an older version and will try that... and if it doesn't work, I guess I'm going ubuntu and software RAID as this is just silly.