Originally Posted By: DWallach
I used to run a fileserver, and it would be awfully tempting to go down the rabbit hole of setting up a FreeNAS system.

I found it's not that big a rabbit hole, if you don't want it to be. I set one up about 3 and a 1/2 years ago, and until I upgraded a couple of weeks ago, hadn't touched it since. It just sits there and does its thing. Same with the one we have at my office, and that one's even older.