NASLite Network Attached Storage

I've tried FreeNAS twice (with about 6-8 months in between) and it kept crashing on me, plus the speed wasn't ideal... I really wanted to try to use it, since it is based on Monowall, a project that I've written several features for, and some of my code is almost certainly in FreeNAS, but the last time I tried it out it just wasn't stable.

I have an old system running Rebyte that I'm planning to upgrade to NasLite... Rebyte wasn't very flexible, didn't support a lot of hardware, and only supported software mirroring/RAID in very specific configurations (drive 1 as a slave on the primary IDE, drive 2 as the master on the secondary IDE, drive 3 as the slave on the secondary - With the primary master being the flash disk that Rebyte ran from).

As far as I can tell, it only had one feature that (I believe) NasLite doesn't currently have... User permissions on a per-share level. My home network isn't a high security environment (yet at least), so that's not a major concern. (Though I would like to have a password protected area for critical backups to be stored, in the event a Windows machine on the network gets some sort of network aware virus.)

My plan is to use NasLite for video storage. I currently have a 160 GB drive and a 200 GB drive that are mostly full of video on my Sage TV server. My Rebyte machine has two 250 GB drives inside (currently mirrored, but not for long), to which I'll probably add the 200 GB drive from the server machine. This should give me about 700 GB of capacity on the NAS, plus the 160 on the server itself.

Anyhow, this looks like a good product...

Yeah, that sounds about right

I think you made a fine choice going with naslite. It's light on features but does the job better than one can expect from a 3mb os.