> a setup for making media, documents, etc available on my network
Sure its gonna do that. Major difference to Synology is it has a pretty case and usable out-of-the-box software, while here you've got to be comfortable with some Linux stuff.
If you have a separate backup for the things that cannot be easily replaced (movies, music can just be re-downloaded), than I don't see the need to worry too much about redundancy or ECC RAM or ZFS etc.
thanks very much. May be worth checking out then. It would be nice to have something simple to start with and know what my needs really are before investing in something multi-hundreds of dollars
Sure its gonna do that. Major difference to Synology is it has a pretty case and usable out-of-the-box software, while here you've got to be comfortable with some Linux stuff.
If you have a separate backup for the things that cannot be easily replaced (movies, music can just be re-downloaded), than I don't see the need to worry too much about redundancy or ECC RAM or ZFS etc.