I'm looking into upgrading my Netgear ReadyNAS duo to something with more HDD bays (>= 4) as well as something more flexible to aid my move away from the cloud.<p>My main requirements are:<p>- A backup destination (timemachine/rsync)
- A shared file storage space
- Run a development environment (web development)
- Ability to run a few other servers; gitlab, media, torrents<p>I was thinking of getting a HP proliant server and running freenas or something similar but the cost stacks up quite quickly. The alternative is to go with a more powerful small-office NAS.<p>What do people here use at home/small office?
I would recommend getting a used sever off eBay for about $400. Busying some hard drives and running VMware EXSi with PCI pass though for freenas. This is what I'm running at my house. And it works wonderfully.
I have a big 2U server running VMware ESXi with PCI pass though for a freenas VM. It also it my router (pfsense). I have a Ubuntu cm with plex, transmission, couchpotato, and slick beard as my media server.