Hi everyone. So I recently stumbled upon freenas. Set it up on a spare PC to test it out with a flash drive and a 64gb ssd. Copied a season of a TV show and added the share to xbmc to play on my nexus player. So far so good. Only problem I ran into was setting up a simple share with no login/password. The only info I found was to create a "guest" account and set permissions to allow read and write. This, for some reason , kept creating a "guest" sub folder and "homes" folders inside all the shared folders. I searched all over and couldn't find a solution. I couldn't delete them.
Is there a way to set up a simple smb share that won't require a log in on the client side that won't create subfoldders with the "guest" name?
Also this would be my first venture into raid. I have a case with a mb that holds and supports 6 drives. My only concern is, everything I keep reading about nas and nas hard drives leads me to believe the file system is meant to run 24/7. I do not need this in any way. I need storage to run a xbmc library, but I would like my drives to power down when they are not being used. I'm OK with waiting 5 seconds when accessing a video for the server to power it on . I really want to utilize raid z1 to have 3 drives or more and get a ton of storage with the spare for parity. I realize the server needs to be running but I don't need all -eventually- 6 drives constantly drawing power and being degraded.
Basically to sum up I need a large array of storage, but I do not need 24/7 constant up time. There are huge amounts of times during the week when we are at work during the day, where I would hate to have the 6 drives spinning, not being accessed.
My other option would be to do 6 drives on a windows software mirror at half the capacity and from what I read half the transfer speed.
Please help. Not sure which way to go here.
Right now I have a PC with a 4tb drive and a 1tb drive, 2 TB USB 1tb USB, all scattered...with individual volumes.
Is there a way to set up a simple smb share that won't require a log in on the client side that won't create subfoldders with the "guest" name?
Also this would be my first venture into raid. I have a case with a mb that holds and supports 6 drives. My only concern is, everything I keep reading about nas and nas hard drives leads me to believe the file system is meant to run 24/7. I do not need this in any way. I need storage to run a xbmc library, but I would like my drives to power down when they are not being used. I'm OK with waiting 5 seconds when accessing a video for the server to power it on . I really want to utilize raid z1 to have 3 drives or more and get a ton of storage with the spare for parity. I realize the server needs to be running but I don't need all -eventually- 6 drives constantly drawing power and being degraded.
Basically to sum up I need a large array of storage, but I do not need 24/7 constant up time. There are huge amounts of times during the week when we are at work during the day, where I would hate to have the 6 drives spinning, not being accessed.
My other option would be to do 6 drives on a windows software mirror at half the capacity and from what I read half the transfer speed.
Please help. Not sure which way to go here.
Right now I have a PC with a 4tb drive and a 1tb drive, 2 TB USB 1tb USB, all scattered...with individual volumes.
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