This is an old post, but a feel-good post that makes me smile each time. I’m glad to see the statue is still there 7 years later (minus the brief theft).

I picked up an old Dell Optiplex tower and slapped 4 cheap 4 TB drives in it. Setup as RAID 5 I got 12 TB of “redundant” storage for cheap! Perfect spot to keep all the p0rn torrents.

But I used OpenMediaVault for that deployment. It’s been OK… but I kinda feel that I am missing out on some of the more active developments of other distributions.

Despite that, I would absolutely suggest grabbing an old office computer and throwing some drives into it for a home NAS.