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Rather than relying on a third party's Nas services, you can build your own. Mr Loreilhe followed our recent article and explains which products he found the best
I enjoyed the ‘Simple Storage’ article in issue 357 and had good results making my own network-attached storage (Nas) device for sharing documents over a network.
An old computer with a new hard disk is ideal or there are deals online for older models. You don’t need to buy a copy of Windows as there are versions of Linux designed for this.
Freenas is good but download version 7 as the latest edition (8) doesn’t have the media-streaming software. Or you could use Ubuntu, as I did. I installed Webmin so I can control the server through a browser.
People on the Ubuntu forums have been helpful and now I have Mini DLNA installed, which means I can stream my music and videos to my new DLNA-enabled Blu-ray player.
Damian Loreilhe
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