Windows alternative to XPEnology and freenas

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Windows alternative to XPEnology and freenas.

I would have used XPEnology or freenas but i really dont know how to use linux. most how to install new apps.
 
what im asking is can use windows as a NAS like freenas or should i switch ?

I i can use windows i just dont know how to use linux that why ive not installed the other 2 option, or can i run one of the other 2 inside windows and still get good results ?
 
You can create network shares on Windows in same way you can on a NAS. It's something that Google should easily provide the instructions for. My home server is running Windows 10 Pro because I was too tight to buy a server licence (and I didn't need one for what it's doing).

Having an all Windows environment can actually be easier to deal with than a mixed environment. Just treat your 'server' as another Windows PC.

Depending on what you're looking for in drive redundancy (RAID or equivalent) you might need additional software on Windows.
 
Thats what i was thinking and i have setup the network like you have said, but I cant seam to get a personal cloud setup like freenas thats one thing i want to do but it seams much harder then i thought.
 
In terms of parity protection using windows, I would steer clear of Windows Storage Spaces as that has problems with not balancing out drives leading to full drives when it shouldn't be...

You need to determine whether you want realtime parity protection or snapshot parity. For realtime, windows only really has t-raid by flexraid, very similar to how Unraid works. for snapshot there is flexraid or snapraid.

The developer of flexraid/t-raid is developing S-Raid which is a software based full raid suite (can do hybrid raid deployments like Synology Hybrid Raid) but this is still being developed and it appears that he has stopped work for the moment... I was using it and was surprised by its relative completeness but it still needed more work and a far more intuitive interface.
 
If you're after specific functionality you need to ask specific questions. The underlying OS doesn't usually matter that much.

Too late in the day to get into specifics at the moment. Decide what you want to achieve and then research it yourself and comeback with questions arising.
 
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