Cheap NAS using FreeBSD - practical considerations?

[Andrew P.]

Mark wrote:
>>That's something :-) I only built a separate FreeBSD file-server because
>>I have to run Windows on my PC and I can't trust M$ software with 700Gb+
>>of data. However, some people store many terabytes with Windows Storage
>>Server - and look what happened in UK a few weeks ago :-) 
> 
> What happened a few weeks ago?
> 

http://www.google.com/search?q=uk+government+windows+upgrade+down
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/windows/0,39020396,39175160,00.htm