As the title says... I'd like to use my "old" desktop as a home server or NAS. I've taken to doing almost everything on my Macbook, and I just put a 120 Gig SSD in it, so while it's now smokin' fast, ...

What is FreeNAS you say? Put simply, it's is an operating system based on FreeBSD that brings with it a snazzy web interface for management, and all the protocols you need to share files between ...

So you’ve taken my earlier advice and used the free and open-source FreeNAS operating system to convert an old desktop PC into a server, instead of consigning it to the e-waste heap. (If you haven’t, ...