At the time, I was having trouble getting the latest 64-bit Linux distro DVDs to boot. Eventually I came acrossubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-amd64+mac.isowhich actuallydidboot and install. Unfortunately, these mac-specific images seem to have fallen by the wayside as of late. I figured it was ...
1. Whether to go with freeNAS or Openfiler, or a linux distro? 2. What file system to use? Is ZFS a faster file sysyem (for read) than UFS or even NTFS? Can the windows and Mac PC's access the data if ZFS is used? 3. Whether to use 6 ports on the mobo for the main array...