{"id":92,"date":"2005-07-07T19:25:18","date_gmt":"2005-07-08T00:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/2005\/07\/07\/building-an-nas-using-old-hardware\/"},"modified":"2005-07-13T15:05:59","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T20:05:59","slug":"building-an-nas-using-old-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Building a NAS Using Old Hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a bunch of extra computer equipment just sitting around, including computers, hard-drives, etc. Well, I had a lot more before cleaning out our garage recently, but that&#8217;s a different story :-). While listening to one of my many podcasts, I heard the mention of a &#8216;software-based&#8217; NAS that someone could use with old hardware.<br \/>\nTake a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.serverelements.com\/naslite.php\">NASLite<\/a> from Server Elements. They offer some streamlined distributions which are free to download, as well as paid versions with more features.<br \/>\nBasically, you grab an old computer, even an old 486, stick some hard-drives in it and boot from the floppy. A couple minutes later, after less than a minute of configuration, you have <em>network attached storage<\/em>. All your drives are now shares on your network, accessible by any other computers. Instant file-server, low maintenance. Beautiful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a bunch of extra computer equipment just sitting around, including computers, hard-drives, etc. Well, I had a lot more before cleaning out our garage recently, but that&#8217;s a different story :-). While listening to one of my many podcasts, I heard the mention of a &#8216;software-based&#8217; NAS that someone could use with old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookmarks","category-geek-stuff","category-linux"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pA6RZ-1u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}