Not by vocation, but it was pretty easy to learn enough to get by just fine. As it happens I did "get something usable" running in not much time at all.
Did your "something usable" include jailed instances of Plex media server, DLNA server, OSX time machine service, and bittorrent client, all with web GUIs?
I've done Solaris, FBSD, and linux admin, and probably could have set all that up, eventually. I set it up, plus CIFS, and NFS shares, in an afternoon on FreeNAS.
It's the plugins for all those that really sold me on using FreeNAS instead of rolling my own.
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A serious question: why use FreeNAS, a repackaged FreeBSD, when you can just use the way more up to date real thing - FreeBSD 10.1 itself?
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Are you a FreeBSD admin? If not, you have no chance in hell of getting something usable in a decent amount of time.
You do have that chance with FreeNAS.
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Not by vocation, but it was pretty easy to learn enough to get by just fine. As it happens I did "get something usable" running in not much time at all.
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It's the plugins for all those that really sold me on using FreeNAS instead of rolling my own.
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