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A lot of users are going that way, using FreeNAS. It's still in beta but looks promising. I was testing it with a old pc when I bought my 4500. And their pc's are moving to linux. Away from MS Bloat ware. You don't realize how much computing power is required to run a Software Raid. And I could not see purchasing a card that was more expensive than my whole pc. My big concern was noise, all for that with the 4500 jet engines. My PC would have been quieter.

Most of us who have picked up the Guardian units have been selling off our older units. The Guardian OS units actually run on RedHat Enterprise. But like all of Snap hardware it looks for a special ID so you can't export it to other hardware. Which is shame, the Guardian OS is really nice.

I still have an old Apple and need the APF the main reason I bought it in the first place.

Adaptec was having problems with their hardware getting into the enterprise bussiness the reason they bought SnapAppliance. SnapAppliance was a very friendly company to deal with. Adaptec was jerks. I still think there attitude toward the small guy will kill them in th elong run. They did not realise that person buying their old eqipment was users in the IT fields working for large corp. Putting a bad taste in their mouth definaltely hurt them when it came time to buy new hardware.