I am currently working on building my own FREE cloud storage server using FreeNAS. I always begin a project by writing a list of thoughts on how to proceed with it.
This is my current list of objectives for this project:
- Install the TrueNAS software on a spare computer.
- Log in to TrueNAS and familiarize myself with the configuration.
- See if I can add more hard drives to the TrueNAS server.
- See if I can set up RAID; if so, purchase a few hard drives.
- Learn how ot set up remote access from our smartphones.
- Set up SMB file sharing from my Mac and Windows Laptops for remote storage.
As I work on this project, I will keep a log here and also attempt to record some video for YouTube. Sometimes, I would rather read the instructions than watch a video.
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