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I've had a NAS for years (more than I can remember). At first, i was running FreeNAS, but they changed it to the point where the new version's filesystem wasn't at all compatible with the old version's filesystem, so I lost about 900 movies that had stored on the drives. I got pissed, and removed FreeNAS and installed Win7. My NAS box has 15TB of drives in in it. I use it to serve movies and store backups from my other machines.
I wrote an article about building a NAS box:
Build Your Own NAS Device[^]
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Interesting, any updates since 2011?
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I posted a comment about it about a year ago regarding the hardware failure.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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A. Yes. Yes. Yes.
B. Amazon unlimited
Synology is what I use. (RAID 1). Pretty painless so far.
Building your own is also good if you have the time and inclination. For me it wasn't worth the effort.
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Store-bought NAS devices are not nearly as upgradable as a regular PC. I have 18 drive bays in my NAS, and have support installed right now for 10 drives. You simply cannot do that with a store-bought NAS device. Worth the effort? You betcha...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Of course for something like that, it is definitely better (and much cheaper) to build your own. I did consider building one but only needed a two-bay NAS, and I rarely upgrade anything anyway, it hardly seemed worth building one.
You are partly to blame that I gave up making one, I remember you nearly sliced off your arm during the build... 
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That wasn't related to the NAS box.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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If you want something that just works with minimal need to elephant with it, are space constrained and need at most 4 disks of storage prebuild NASes are a great convenience option. For larger storage volumes you start to get elephanted on the price though because the pricing switches from assuming you're a consumer to a business who can be soaked since they only need to be cheaper than the hourly rate of their computer dude vs competing with geeks who can build their boxes for free. 
If you just want dumb file storage and basic media sharing any off the shelf nas should do, if you want to load a lot of stuff on it Synology and QNAP have the most capable software. Recent reviews put the formers software as more capable out of the box, but the laters x86 models are capable of running a full up VM on top of their native software making it easier to add whatever oddball software you want that's not in their app stores (afaik just user friendly skinned package managers).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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As the Subject line may indicate, this is a message to @jorgen_andersson (and I never remember how to reference a ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) member).
How did your holidays go?
Was everything ok?
Did the fires affect you?
modified 18-Aug-16 4:01am.
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@jorgen_andersson should notify him now.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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Thank you, that is without special signs (¨`´...) and without caps.
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Thanks for asking.
Everything was quite splendid except for a few details.
As you've already guessed: On the first day after arrival, while eating lunch on the patio, we saw this big cloud of smoke. It was a forest fire just a kilometer or two away. Luckily we weren't in the direction of the wind.
Another problem was that the house was pretty dark in colour and didn't have air condition. So we tried to sleep with the windows open.
It turns out I'm allergic to Spanish mosquitoes. I got large watering rashes varying between the size of my watch to beer coasters. 
We found a local Bodega that was very popular among the locals.
They didn't have a menu, the owner sat down with us telling us what he had in the fridge today, creating our meals through discussion. (Lot's of tapas obviously) We've seldom had so much and so good food for so little money ever before.
I'll make a better update later, have to get back to work now.
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Movie Quote Of The Day
From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole. Cross Rome mystic elements unfold. The path of light is laid, the sacred test. Let angels guide thee on they lofty quest.
Which movie?
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Foucault's Pendulum for Dummies
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War Starts : The light that blinds
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Stairway to Heaven?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I think it could be Angels and demons
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Don't think so much - Read the rules instead! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I completed reading this novel today and iam pretty much sure that I have read this phrase in the novel. I havent watched the movie so i dont know
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He means the "MQOTD rules" - see here: V. - Professional Profile[^] and scroll down to near the bottom of the page.
The idea isn't to give the right answer - anyone with Google access could do that - but to give a "funny" answer instead.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ok. Just realised that
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Harold and Kumar Get The Munchies
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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SantaPope
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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So something kinda strange happened with my "programming career" thus far. It started with C#, progressed to things like Entity Framework and MVC, and in the midst I learned a tiny bit of HTML and CSS in there, though frankly I kind of already knew HTML from long ago. Then, hoping to make interactive, awesome front end content, I learned JS and jQuery.
Recently though, I realized... CSS is powerful as hell... And I didn't learn it right. I learned it, thinking it was a simple markup to do things like apply font and color to text, and screw with margins and borders... Turns out, you can animate things, create sidebar menus, do almost anything you could in Photoshop, and even make a 3D animated Pokemon for God's sake...
But... What the hell IS CSS? I'm told it's not a programming language, I'm told people who know CSS and HTML exclusively are not "real programmers" and I have been happy to be a "real programmer"... Until I have been working on projects to boost my portfolio and.... My websites, while functional, and implementing cool things like a database, models, data transfer objects, and a login system... Have been, for lack of a better term, UGLY AS HELL!
But I get so much more satisfaction out of hooking up a database to a website, and setting up a RESTful system... Yet I know for a fact that even I, when faced with an ugly site, couldn't give less of a crap about how the back end is built and want to leave it immediately.
Is this a normal feel for a new coder like me? I'm about to go and try to really tackle CSS, but I feel so pathetic doing it. Yet, it is SO necessary.
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