When I built my home NAS, I started with FreeNAS, but it was a pain. The instance of ECC RAM, the lack of USB support[], the community that seemed more focused

When I built my home NAS, I started with FreeNAS, but it was a pain. The instance of ECC RAM, the lack of USB support[], the community that seemed more focused on office solutions exclusively were killers, and a hermetically sealed distribution were all killers. I switched to Linux based OpenMediaVault[1] and all my problems went away. It uses the same UI as FreeNAS, but defaults to EXT4, supports USB backups, and lets me do anything I want on it. It's great. [] The answer to multiple independent requests about backing up the NAS to a USB enclosure, and met with a refrain of "USB drives are crap, so you're stupid for using them. You should back up your NAS to another NAS, that you never move." Fuck you. I know the limits of my failure model. [1] http://www.openmediavault.org/ http://www.openmediavault.org/