LiangShui
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Hello,
I know everyone says this, but I have been lurking around for a year now on and off, reading stickies and the manual and I would just like to start off by saying thank you to everyone who provides guides and resources on this forum.
My father passed away recently and I realised that you mainly leave behind memories. So I am still young and I want to make my own FreeNas box to keep all my photos and videos and bits and bobs so that hopefully in 10 years time I will thank myself! I didn't mean that for the soppy story, it was to answer the redundancy question!
I had a D link NAS but all very basic, just to get the flavour of a NAS. I had a 1TB WD Green and a 4TB WD Red. I made a Raid 1 with 1TB from WD Green and 1Tb from Red and then told it to make a separate partition on the remaining 3tb on the WD RED. However, the NAS ended up making a RAID1 and a JBOD span and then crashed and stop recognising the drives 2 months later. I got all my important data back from RAID1 but can't find a way to get the 3Tb back (not important data). I know this isn't the place to ask but I thought if anyone wanted a fun challenge then I would just put it out there.
Sent the box back and got my money back so all good. I have been reading and researching about how this all works and I have some ideas.
I started off by reading CyberJock's Hardware recommendations, and then of course the FreeNas Manual.
Then I decided what I really wanted the Nas box for apart for backing files up. So I had a think.
My plan was to record all the VHS my dad had left lying around and put them on the NAS.
Backup all my music and films.
I did set up plex when I was living with my flatmates, I got them to all chip in for a nowTV box and we all transcoded from our pc to the nowTV box. So I decided I wanted to have plex and transcode. I am not a pixelpeeper and I have a reasonably low standard when it comes to video quality. I only have 1 television capable of displaying 1080p and for the rest I am contempt with 720p 3Mbps. So probably 1 1080p 6Mbs and 1 720p 3Mbps simultaneously.
I was therefore quite interested in the Asrock C2750D4I (and I probably would have bought the FreeNas Mini if it shipped to France for free). Especially since in CyberJock's blog he reports 3 1080p transcodes!
I then started thinking about my disks. After a lot of thinking and having read about the risks of Raidz1 (Raidz1 is dead) I decided to go with Raidz2 and 4 4TB WD RED drives and expand in the future and buy another 4 4TB and make what I believe is called Raidz2+0, 2 raidz2 in a RaidO.
But then I started thinking about upgradability, and thought that I should probably buy a motherboard and a cpu so I could always expand if I wanted more power. So I was then considering Supermicro X9SCM-F and Xeon E3-1230v2.
But then I realised the power of Xeons. I have always wanted to find that personal handbrake compression sweet spot and compress all my videos to that bitrate, it just seems so logical to me to save all that space.
I now wanted to get that xeon cpu and when not using plex I wanted to use the cpu and have a watchfolder for handbrake.
I searched this forum to see if it was possible to run handbrake on freenas but I could only find a post about someone offering a solution to transcode using handbrake.
I then looked into vm's so I could run handbrake via windows or run a h264 cluster compression program such as RipBot 264 on windows. This article suggested that the time difference between native handbrake and a vm weren't that bad, at least not for my personal preference.
I was therefore sold on the X9 motherboard and xeon v2 cpu. However, I live in France, and apart from 2nd hand on ebay (I am not really sure about buying a cpu 2nd hand?) I can't find the Xeon E3-1230v2 in France/ships to France on reasonable price.
I then started looking at Super Micro X10 and X11 following jgreco's supermicro motherboard part number guide to find the appropriate cpu. However, a response from jgreco had me uncertain as to if I really needed a newer generation of Cpu. It just seems like I need a recent Cpu because I can actually find one in France and I will have to buy an expensive motherboard that is compatible with the cpu, it's an expensive cycle.
I read Ericloewe's post about the differences between X10 and X11 but I don't think I will benefit from the novelties, furthermore, I don't think I will need 64GB ram?
So I made and attached an excel spreadsheet screenshot on what I think my options are and the price I have found in euros. It still seems that the Xeon E3-1230v2 x9 combo is the best option price/benchmark (i do realise benchmark isn't everything). But to be honest, I am quite confused at the moment and not sure if:
- I should buy the Xeon E3-1230v2 and X9 motherboard or if I should get a more recent cpu and motherboard?
- Is there any benefits I am missing about having an up to date cpu and motherboard?
- If I should buy a second hand cpu off ebay?
- I reckon 20GB ram for the plex jail and a vm running handbrake should be enough, am I right?
- Does my upgrade plan of 4 4tb drive raidz2 and then another 4 drives later on sound good?
- Is my idea of handbrake in a vm silly or does it sound doable?
Thanks for reading all this and thanks again to all of you for your advice. Sorry for making it very long, I know this is my first post but I don't really know how I can give back to the community. So I thought I would make a detailed post explaining my thought process and linking guides and posts I found, so that anyone having the same problems as me and was searching the forum, could benefit from the same useful information I found.
Oh and also I have been told that a lot of the VHS are recordings from old Tv shows, so if anyone wants me to lookout for a particular tv show or something, I could have a look out when going through the VHS.
I know everyone says this, but I have been lurking around for a year now on and off, reading stickies and the manual and I would just like to start off by saying thank you to everyone who provides guides and resources on this forum.
My father passed away recently and I realised that you mainly leave behind memories. So I am still young and I want to make my own FreeNas box to keep all my photos and videos and bits and bobs so that hopefully in 10 years time I will thank myself! I didn't mean that for the soppy story, it was to answer the redundancy question!
I had a D link NAS but all very basic, just to get the flavour of a NAS. I had a 1TB WD Green and a 4TB WD Red. I made a Raid 1 with 1TB from WD Green and 1Tb from Red and then told it to make a separate partition on the remaining 3tb on the WD RED. However, the NAS ended up making a RAID1 and a JBOD span and then crashed and stop recognising the drives 2 months later. I got all my important data back from RAID1 but can't find a way to get the 3Tb back (not important data). I know this isn't the place to ask but I thought if anyone wanted a fun challenge then I would just put it out there.
Sent the box back and got my money back so all good. I have been reading and researching about how this all works and I have some ideas.
I started off by reading CyberJock's Hardware recommendations, and then of course the FreeNas Manual.
Then I decided what I really wanted the Nas box for apart for backing files up. So I had a think.
My plan was to record all the VHS my dad had left lying around and put them on the NAS.
Backup all my music and films.
I did set up plex when I was living with my flatmates, I got them to all chip in for a nowTV box and we all transcoded from our pc to the nowTV box. So I decided I wanted to have plex and transcode. I am not a pixelpeeper and I have a reasonably low standard when it comes to video quality. I only have 1 television capable of displaying 1080p and for the rest I am contempt with 720p 3Mbps. So probably 1 1080p 6Mbs and 1 720p 3Mbps simultaneously.
I was therefore quite interested in the Asrock C2750D4I (and I probably would have bought the FreeNas Mini if it shipped to France for free). Especially since in CyberJock's blog he reports 3 1080p transcodes!
I then started thinking about my disks. After a lot of thinking and having read about the risks of Raidz1 (Raidz1 is dead) I decided to go with Raidz2 and 4 4TB WD RED drives and expand in the future and buy another 4 4TB and make what I believe is called Raidz2+0, 2 raidz2 in a RaidO.
But then I started thinking about upgradability, and thought that I should probably buy a motherboard and a cpu so I could always expand if I wanted more power. So I was then considering Supermicro X9SCM-F and Xeon E3-1230v2.
But then I realised the power of Xeons. I have always wanted to find that personal handbrake compression sweet spot and compress all my videos to that bitrate, it just seems so logical to me to save all that space.
I now wanted to get that xeon cpu and when not using plex I wanted to use the cpu and have a watchfolder for handbrake.
I searched this forum to see if it was possible to run handbrake on freenas but I could only find a post about someone offering a solution to transcode using handbrake.
I then looked into vm's so I could run handbrake via windows or run a h264 cluster compression program such as RipBot 264 on windows. This article suggested that the time difference between native handbrake and a vm weren't that bad, at least not for my personal preference.
I was therefore sold on the X9 motherboard and xeon v2 cpu. However, I live in France, and apart from 2nd hand on ebay (I am not really sure about buying a cpu 2nd hand?) I can't find the Xeon E3-1230v2 in France/ships to France on reasonable price.
I then started looking at Super Micro X10 and X11 following jgreco's supermicro motherboard part number guide to find the appropriate cpu. However, a response from jgreco had me uncertain as to if I really needed a newer generation of Cpu. It just seems like I need a recent Cpu because I can actually find one in France and I will have to buy an expensive motherboard that is compatible with the cpu, it's an expensive cycle.
I read Ericloewe's post about the differences between X10 and X11 but I don't think I will benefit from the novelties, furthermore, I don't think I will need 64GB ram?
So I made and attached an excel spreadsheet screenshot on what I think my options are and the price I have found in euros. It still seems that the Xeon E3-1230v2 x9 combo is the best option price/benchmark (i do realise benchmark isn't everything). But to be honest, I am quite confused at the moment and not sure if:
- I should buy the Xeon E3-1230v2 and X9 motherboard or if I should get a more recent cpu and motherboard?
- Is there any benefits I am missing about having an up to date cpu and motherboard?
- If I should buy a second hand cpu off ebay?
- I reckon 20GB ram for the plex jail and a vm running handbrake should be enough, am I right?
- Does my upgrade plan of 4 4tb drive raidz2 and then another 4 drives later on sound good?
- Is my idea of handbrake in a vm silly or does it sound doable?
Thanks for reading all this and thanks again to all of you for your advice. Sorry for making it very long, I know this is my first post but I don't really know how I can give back to the community. So I thought I would make a detailed post explaining my thought process and linking guides and posts I found, so that anyone having the same problems as me and was searching the forum, could benefit from the same useful information I found.
Oh and also I have been told that a lot of the VHS are recordings from old Tv shows, so if anyone wants me to lookout for a particular tv show or something, I could have a look out when going through the VHS.
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