Why FreeNAS? Why not Windows Home Server? I decided to use FreeNAS over WHS because I wanted something that was extremely light weight and did not have to be installed on any of my 4 storage drives. FreeNAS is versatile in the sense that I can install it on a thumb drive, configure, backup the config, load FreeNAS onto another thumb drive, restore my saved config and I'm back online. In the event that my host "drive" fails, I'll have my config backed up so I can easily load FreeNAS onto another usb media device, boot up, load my config and I am in business. If I were using WHS loaded onto one of my storage drives, if that drive failed, I'd lose my OS as well as any data that is not redundant or backed up.
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