Huge online support and the community is really helpful. Uses a form of RAID 5 without striping and can be made to be pretty fast with an SSD for a cache drive. UnRAID - Custom made for use as a media server.
since I don't transcode, I haven't played with this functionality yet.Ĭheckpointing is a very nice feature for a NAS so You could restore a file system as of a specific time and date, due to an errant file/directory removal or corruption.Ĭlick to expand.As far as software, if you are invested in Plex, I would consider:
File sharing is excellent and works for me streaming flac audio to Sonos, high bitrate BluRAY mkv's to Dune media players, rsyncing to off-site WD My Book/My Cloud Linux boxes.įreenas has a concept of "plugins" for example, plex plugin, they discourage adding software to the FreeBSD core OS layer, they use a virtual OS system called BSD jails (similar to Vmware I guess). When I do it over I will probably do a 10-wide 3Tb raidz2 and 6-wide 3Tb raidz2.įreenas has a ton of "enterprise file server" functionality built-in that works out of the box (SMB, NFS, AFS, Rsync, FTP) and great ZFS functionality built in (automatic checksum'ing, scrubbing, checkpointing, raidz2/raidz3, compression, encryption). I built a rack-mounted FreeNas server using Xeon processor, 32Gb ECC ram, Supermicro chassis and motherboard, I bought several IBM M1015 HBA cards and flashed them to IT mode, put it all together, and built a 11-wide 3Tb raidz3 and 5-wide 3Tb raidz2. What sort of software do you guys recommend (WMS, etc?)? I read about Xpenlology (does this allow me to run the Synology DSM on my media server). I have build my own PC but I am kinda lost on what I need to buy to accomplish this. Good cooling for the media server even though the rack is located in the basement Expandability (Currently my NAS has 4 TB used, mostly with the above data)ģ. Rackmount (I have a Rack which has all my network, automation, AV equipment)Ģ. As most of the videos are in 1080p, the NAS server is always transcoding.ġ. At any time there are about 5 users watching movies. I need the media server to stream multiple simultaneous users (via Plex). I would therefore want to transfer all my data from the NAS to the media server. Hi, guys, I need some help in deciding what parts to buy to build a media server (plex media server) to store movies, tv shows, photos.Ĭurrently I have a Synology DS1512+ but I have a issue with transcoding with plex.
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