FreeNAS

Advantages: Free, easy, fast and reliable
Disadvantages: Complicated install and many configuration options

...!!. What is FreeNAS FreeNAS is exactly what the title says, its a Linux based operating system IE the software that tells a computer to run . FreeNAS stands for free network attached storage. To use this OS you have to download it from the website in the form of an ISO which then needs to be burnt to a CD, once that's done the complicated stuff is over, pop the cd into any spare computer you have and FreeNAS takes over, the installer runs and then ...
...a static IP. From then FreeNAS s ready to use Why use FreeNAS? FreeNAS is great for putting all your data in one central place where all the computers on your network can view modify and create data. It handles all file types and is fast and speedy and reliable, in the 3 years mine has been online without a break it hasn't failed once, it uses very little network bandwidth and file transfer times on a optimized network compare to putting data onto ... Read review