longpole001
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- Aug 14, 2012
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hi guys,
looking for some advice on the best approach to setup of an existing HTPC and arranging the drives into freenas setup , whilst still having the other features of the HTPC gives
currently the pc has Jriver media center 17 running and win7 64 , the system is only used for media centre and some home backup of local files
The intent is to isolate the management and control of the storage , but maintain the features of win7 and the Jriver Media center interface , HDMI tv/monitor , 7.1ch audio that the MB has
Currently media files fill is about 80% of the available storage ( 24terra) , and all the HDs in use now
I have no redundancy on the system , but offsite backup of most of it is on friends htPc systems.
but would like to start using raid5 level redundancy on this system -
questions:
A. I am not sure how to setup both freenas and win7 on the one machine , assuming i used 8g USBflash for Freenas - how would this be best done ?
b. considered using 3 x VDev of 5 to 1 zpool using raidZ1 ( yes ill add one more 2T drive to the mix) - is this the way to go
c. I know i will have to wipe HD's and reload the data when using feenas :( - cant see away around this ??
4. I know ill be short by 6T of storage from my current config when going to raidz1
( 1 x 2T drive per VDev for ZIL) and more storage will be needed for the shortfall :( )
Cheers
Sheldon
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The current hardware is as follows
14 x 2T HD -all WD green
1 x SSD 120g -( on sata3) ( windows 7 64x only)
1 x bluray drive( USB3)
hd tv tuners x 2 ( 4 ch) on usb2
MB - ASRock a75 Extreem6
cpu A6-2.7ghz FM1
4 x 4G mem ( 16G)
8 sata ports( 6gps) - no raid setup - standard IDE
CARDs 4 x 2 port - PCI-e SATA 3 Card Adapter Serial-ATA 3.0 - ASM1061 ( 8 ports)
1 x 10/100/1000 PCI network card (2ND nic )
looking for some advice on the best approach to setup of an existing HTPC and arranging the drives into freenas setup , whilst still having the other features of the HTPC gives
currently the pc has Jriver media center 17 running and win7 64 , the system is only used for media centre and some home backup of local files
The intent is to isolate the management and control of the storage , but maintain the features of win7 and the Jriver Media center interface , HDMI tv/monitor , 7.1ch audio that the MB has
Currently media files fill is about 80% of the available storage ( 24terra) , and all the HDs in use now
I have no redundancy on the system , but offsite backup of most of it is on friends htPc systems.
but would like to start using raid5 level redundancy on this system -
questions:
A. I am not sure how to setup both freenas and win7 on the one machine , assuming i used 8g USBflash for Freenas - how would this be best done ?
b. considered using 3 x VDev of 5 to 1 zpool using raidZ1 ( yes ill add one more 2T drive to the mix) - is this the way to go
c. I know i will have to wipe HD's and reload the data when using feenas :( - cant see away around this ??
4. I know ill be short by 6T of storage from my current config when going to raidz1
( 1 x 2T drive per VDev for ZIL) and more storage will be needed for the shortfall :( )
Cheers
Sheldon
---------
The current hardware is as follows
14 x 2T HD -all WD green
1 x SSD 120g -( on sata3) ( windows 7 64x only)
1 x bluray drive( USB3)
hd tv tuners x 2 ( 4 ch) on usb2
MB - ASRock a75 Extreem6
cpu A6-2.7ghz FM1
4 x 4G mem ( 16G)
8 sata ports( 6gps) - no raid setup - standard IDE
CARDs 4 x 2 port - PCI-e SATA 3 Card Adapter Serial-ATA 3.0 - ASM1061 ( 8 ports)
1 x 10/100/1000 PCI network card (2ND nic )
