So I've run some cat5 down to the garage (uh..by drilling a hole in the floor of the bedroom. Don't tell wifey..s`not our house anyways. We rent. ha) and I stuck a hub down there with the intent to run a windows server for restarting my BBS (ooh yeah. Legend of the Red Dragon, baby). I'm also entertaining the idea of running some sort of Network Attached Storage software so I can have a rather big-arse hard drive(s) to store movies or other large files that I want easy access to but not necessarily taking up space on my desktop PC.

It appears as if I have a few options. FreeNAS and NASLite look good. But I'm looking for in the end, is the ability to open good `ole My Computer and see a network drive.. as seen below on my work lappy.



Am I on the right track with those NAS systems listed above or do any of your foo`s have other suggestions?

Yes. the system I had before this one (AMD 64 3000+ 1gig ram) will become my windows server and will host the BBS and perhaps a game server or two. Nothing too intense as my upload speed isn't the greatest (~130k/second). I have an old dell p4 that`ll be the NAS server.

I think I`ll go with the PC option as I have a slew and won't have to buy anything else. I've decided (for now) to go with FreeNAS. It installed last night without an issue but I think I set it up wrong as I'm fiddling with it at work and can't get a drive to mount. I think I installed it to take up the whole drive with the OS and didn't leave room for the data/storage part. No worries.