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Would it be recommended? Well, FreeNAS is "free" OS than Windows, but a Win10-based NAS is a good solution? Let's say I could just buy, plug, and assign a network drive letter each time I buy a new storage drive rather than buying it all first then do everything in one day.

 

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no if used something like unraid then you could just run win 10 over unraid setting up network shares in windows 10 is a B!TCH

Beth Foster

Xbox Modder, Network Person, Aussie

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13 minutes ago, ms-DOS said:

no if used something like unraid then you could just run win 10 over unraid setting up network shares in windows 10 is a B!TCH

what? share drive, login, bam.. I ran Windows 7 on my home server for a while since some of the early 2000s games I play require it for game servers.

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oh dam yea it was hell for me in windows 10 so i would use win 7 or unraid then

Beth Foster

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It's not difficult to create Windows samba shares. Plus the Storage Spaces feature in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 appears to be good to work with.

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You could use Win 7/8/10, all will serve as basic file shares no problem.It just makes more sense to use something like FreeNAS or if you want to pay use unRAID.

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