*realizes he isn't doing anything with his NUC that he bought two years ago*
me: huh, let's set up a FreeNAS server I can use for my PC backups. Maybe I'll use it as a dry run for a home NAS build.
*FreeNAS needs 8gb to run properly, home backups are gonna require 1TB of data to retain a month's worth of data*
*one 1 TB 2.5 HDD, one 8 GB stick of 1.35v DDR3 RAM, one external USB 3 DVD R/W reader, and $160 later*
Me: ...oops.
on the flip side, i do kind of want to learn about the fresh hell that is storage, especially since it goes hand-in-hand with virtualization these days...even though i work for a company that is primarily pushing customers towards Azure (MS Gold Partner, after all... :v)