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In Reply to: RE: Why Use Either? posted by Spendor Harbeth on October 31, 2009 at 18:54:20
I used a NAS to run a few services such as SB, repository servers and the like for a couple of years and found installation and maintenance a significant drain on my time because of the cut down OS. Last week, when faced with yet another few hours installing software and, possibly, having to disassemble the thing, I accepted defeat and bought what I should have bought in the first place: a low power "proper" computer running a standard OS. Installation and maintenance is now standard and the NAS has reverted to being rather expensive storage.
There is no doubt that some people enjoy playing with their computers and so my comments do not apply if this describes you. If you want a feel for some of the difficulties experienced by people running SB on NAS boxes go and browse the relevant SB forums. At the moment a fair few people are getting upset because they need to run the current version of the SB software because it is the only version that supports some of the new hardware/services but it is broken/not available for many NAS platforms.
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