Greetings,
I'm a long time FreeBSD user and have looked at FreeNAS on and off for a long time now. Never had the need to switch until now. I have a MythTV system (MythBuntu) with a software RAID5 setup of 4 2TB Hard drives (WD Greens I'm pretty sure). It's worked fine for years and but know it's getting old. I've stopped using the MythTV program and wanted to move over to new hardware so here I am lurking around reading as much as I can.
When I do build it I'll go with the WD Reds and just use the greens as a second pool and replace them as they fail with reds. My usage is low at about 30% of 6TB. I had single 1TB disks assigned to each of my tuners and only moved over things I wanted to keep. Right now I watch that with Plex and it's already transcoded to what my Roku supports so it's not CPU intensive.... So the FreeNAS will be running Plex once built...
The other use would be for family files so I'm looking at the options there too to make it easy for the family to use.
Thanks,
Jason
I'm a long time FreeBSD user and have looked at FreeNAS on and off for a long time now. Never had the need to switch until now. I have a MythTV system (MythBuntu) with a software RAID5 setup of 4 2TB Hard drives (WD Greens I'm pretty sure). It's worked fine for years and but know it's getting old. I've stopped using the MythTV program and wanted to move over to new hardware so here I am lurking around reading as much as I can.
When I do build it I'll go with the WD Reds and just use the greens as a second pool and replace them as they fail with reds. My usage is low at about 30% of 6TB. I had single 1TB disks assigned to each of my tuners and only moved over things I wanted to keep. Right now I watch that with Plex and it's already transcoded to what my Roku supports so it's not CPU intensive.... So the FreeNAS will be running Plex once built...
The other use would be for family files so I'm looking at the options there too to make it easy for the family to use.
Thanks,
Jason
