The following trends have been observed in the evolution of NAS operating systems over the last couple of years: An attempt to move from the traditional EXT3 / EXT4 to the more robust and modern ZFS and btrfs file-systems Movement of enterprise features such as high availability down the prod...
As of now I have an i3-3240, 4gb of RAM, 2x6tb and 2x1tb HDDs, and a 120gb SSD(I just got 2 240gb SSDs but not really rushing to implement). my motherboard only has 6 sata ports, and I'm not really in a rush to increase storage to buy a PCIE card. But I run the SSD...
This is one of unraids ideal features, you can add one drive at a time to increase storage, vs with Freenas (or ZFS on Linux) you have to either A) replace ALL of the drives with larger ones and let it rebuild the disk each time (it doesnt expand the storage usability until the ...