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NAS - FreeNAS, LMCE or something else?
B34N:
I appreciate all of the responses. I'm pretty close to building a FreeNAS solution that support RAIDZ2. Yeah, having four 3TB hard drives will be a cash drain but that will seem low-cost if I lost the data. Thanks to the replies, I will likely also do an rsync for the really important stuff, but not for the other replaceable content. Maybe once a month I'll backup to an external HD that I store off-site or cloud.
I like how FreeNas let's me run some solutions from Jail. I'll use that for my Usenet stuff. I also like how Plex organizes data and am interested if anyone has integrated it with LMCE. I know my SWMBO will prefer the remote controlled access to Fire TV running Plex over the current LMCE offerings. It is hard to argue against the ease of use and snappiness until I get LMCE fully functioning.
B34N
theteju:
FreeNAS has ridiculous hardware requirements, specially if you want to setup ZFS (better performing NAS).
Can someone get away with UFS setup just for Media contents.(movies High quality and Music)?
Also,
Never used FreeNAS before, in order it tobe LMCE compatible, do we need any specific FreeNAS setup?
I believe someone in the past suggested to have it setup like /public and /user just the way like LMCE likes, is it true?
Marie.O:
In general, it makes sense to utilize the LinuxMCE folder structure for any place where you want to store media for LinuxMCE. UpdateMedia works better on that setup afaict.
Esperanto:
try http://www.nas4free.org/ . It's the fork of the original freenas using php instead of python as the gui but the os is actual and I think it has less hardware requirements.
Armor Gnome:
I've ran FreeNas, NAS4free and another called "OpenMediaVault" on a networked RAID machine.
FreeNAS - compared to NAS4free the system requirements are slightly higher but does offer ZFS and other powerful features. I ran this off a 4gig thumb drive and didn't have to waste a drive bay on a system hdd.
NAS4free - worked better for me and allowed me to experiment with different formats like JFS for mythtv. I do not believe this offered ZFS but I could be wrong. I used a hardware managed RAID 5 array via IDE PCIX card and a software controlled RAID 5 via SATA PCIX card. -- hardware controller limited array size, software controller got around that.
OpenMediaVault - IMO the best user interface. I was also able to have the NAS watching my UPS via RS232 and other standard features like transmission.
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