A while back I wrote about the use of FreeNAS as the software we used for our network attached storage system where I work. This was where we shared files and did backups of our documents. I liked its ease of use but over time I’ve noticed some quirks about it that I didn’t quite like. I won’t got into too much detail but using it with Windows machines sometimes meant having to do weird things to make the files read/write for everyone besides the owner. Other than that and some other minor issues when I was using Windows Vista it worked like a charm. Now we are taking some time to redo our setup and we’re going to be trying Openfiler. I’m going to be using a raid 1 hardware setup with two 500 gig drives and we’ll see what kind of performance we get out of it. After looking it over it looks like a little more configuration but a lot more granular control. I’ll post in the future how it goes.