Need Help with my NAS/Cloud/Storage/Streaming/RAID Build

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clutchtime123

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Hey guys,
I have put together a little NAS/Cloud/Storage PC. The Parts are:

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97N-WIFI
CPU: Intel i3-4130
PSU: Silverstone 450W
CASE: Silverstone DS-380B
HDD's : 3*3TB WD Green (more on the way)
RAM: 8GB
SSD: Main boot drive is a 120GB SSD.

The problem im facing is that i really need some kind of software that i can port onto this machine that i can access my storage locally via my ethernet/WIFI/Online/Streaming. If there is anyway to do this kindly point me in that direction.

And please do tell me all MAC compatible softwares. I do have the facility to make the computer a hackintosh and have made very stable succesful ones before too. If it helps please do post a link too.

All suggestions are welcome.

Thanks.
 
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Alabalcho

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Any modern Linux distro will work on your hardware (thus utilizing your SSD). You can go fancy with configuring your hard drives in some form of RAID. Don't forget how you will backup this beast - RAID is no substitute for backup.

As for MAC support - as long as Macs can access Windows shares, they will also access Linux / Samba shares.
 
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clutchtime123

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Have looked at FREENAS, but i need something i can access wireleslly over my wifi network and LAN if possible and possibly Cloud. Any suggestions?
 
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clutchtime123

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Could you explain in brief what are window shares. I am sort of new to the concept of NAS and RAID so i was wondering what else i could do.
 
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There is nothing about FreeNAS that would prevent it from being wireless accessible. That is a function of the network not the server. For best performance on a NAS you want it to be connected via a wire. Wireless networking is not great for streaming data. It will work for some things, but high bit rate HD video can have problems with wireless. Multiple simultaneous streams will have problems with wireless.
 
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@Alabalcho is saying that shared folders created using Windows sharing protocols (CIFS or SMB) would be accessible to Macs. Since Macs are Linux based, NFS shared folders would perform better than Windows protocol. FreeNAS can support both protocols.
 
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