Anton Aylward wrote:
That being said ....
I have a friend who runs an older multibay chassis as his household NAS. Its a mixed environment, his kids use Windows on their laptops and he frets about PSUs, what RAID to use, ransomware and more.
Nevertheless, the idea of a small box, one of the "Raspberry Pi/Arduno in a matchbox" devices
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2911098/computers/mini-pc-invasion-10-radical...
http://lifehacker.com/five-best-small-form-factor-pcs-1701619172 and large USB drives is appealing. Or perhaps a large SATA/SSD in the same box and USB for expansion, backup and off-lining.
If it comes to that I might replace my Dell tower with something like that and free up some physical desktop space.
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