[rescue] Friend needs storage solution

[Steve Sandau]

>>>Anyone have any suggestions or opinions?  Cost-effectiveness is an issue.
>>
>>We had a big discussion on one of my college mailing lists over the
>>past week or so, and I think, for someone of limited *nix fu,
> 
> 
> Oh, as far as I know he has Unix-fu, I just don't know whether he has
> the Solaris-fu to use his U10 and Solstice Disksuite^W^WSun Volume
> Manager^W^W^Wwhatever the hell it's called this week....

A friend at work here was/is using FreeNAS for just that purpose. It's a 
  free Linux-based NAS distribution that uses any hardware that Linux 
can handle (AFAIK). He's using software RAID, but it may do hardware 
RAID as well, since I know there are Linux drivers for some RAID cards.

Sounds like it's free and simple to use (two of my personal favorites).

Steve