I have a small business from home and for backups we are using a Synology with 2x Red drives syncing with google drive. Been happy with this so far, but I know once we get larger we need a better solution. Even if its just a couple of people we hire.
I also have a huge stack of broken hard drives since around 1998 sitting in the closet. And my last WD green drive bit the dust as I made a new PC build a few months ago. Our media for the house is currently sitting on a single external hard drive connected to my router, which after a while gets old when that breaks and have to redo the media. I would also like a second place to store pictures.
With a little extra money coming in I found out about freenas from another forum. And decided now would be a good time to start with a home storage solution anticipating getting another in the next year or so.
The ordering began after reading through the forums for a week and watching youtube videos. Waiting on
PC: Lenovo TS140
Ram: Extra 8GB Crucial ECC
HD: 5x 3TB WD Red
Sandisk 4GB USB drive
For now I want to see how this work with 12GB total (4GB and 8GB) of ram. Storage seems like plenty. The server has AMT, which sounds nice and similar to the supermicro mb's. We use a Raspberry Pi (raspbmc) and Dune HD Smart media player for video and those have been working fine on the external USB drive.
One thing that never worked was playing mp3 files from my shared Windows 8.1 PC on the receiver. And one TV that has plex on it, never ever worked right, I think their forums finally removed that particular forum. These are most likely Windows issues, so I have my fingers crossed that freenas just works with these devices. Throwing all of this out there as I wait for everything to arrive.
A huge plus is that I can backup my work stuff to yet another location.
I also have a huge stack of broken hard drives since around 1998 sitting in the closet. And my last WD green drive bit the dust as I made a new PC build a few months ago. Our media for the house is currently sitting on a single external hard drive connected to my router, which after a while gets old when that breaks and have to redo the media. I would also like a second place to store pictures.
With a little extra money coming in I found out about freenas from another forum. And decided now would be a good time to start with a home storage solution anticipating getting another in the next year or so.
The ordering began after reading through the forums for a week and watching youtube videos. Waiting on
PC: Lenovo TS140
Ram: Extra 8GB Crucial ECC
HD: 5x 3TB WD Red
Sandisk 4GB USB drive
For now I want to see how this work with 12GB total (4GB and 8GB) of ram. Storage seems like plenty. The server has AMT, which sounds nice and similar to the supermicro mb's. We use a Raspberry Pi (raspbmc) and Dune HD Smart media player for video and those have been working fine on the external USB drive.
One thing that never worked was playing mp3 files from my shared Windows 8.1 PC on the receiver. And one TV that has plex on it, never ever worked right, I think their forums finally removed that particular forum. These are most likely Windows issues, so I have my fingers crossed that freenas just works with these devices. Throwing all of this out there as I wait for everything to arrive.
A huge plus is that I can backup my work stuff to yet another location.