I have an old small HTPC (AMD Athlon 5350 - 8 gigs ram, 250gig SSD, 4tb internal WD hard drive) plus a 4tb USB 3.0. that I want to turn into a NAS
It had an older version of Ubuntu installed on it. I already installed FREENAS over the Ubuntu install.
The 4tb hard drive is full my entire CD collection, my entire collection of home photos and videos that I DO NOT WANT TO LOOSE.
I would like to:
Have 1 network drive of a 4tb hard drive - and use the usb 3.0 drive as a backup.
When setting up FREE NAS for the first time, I DO NOT WANT TO DELETE the data on the Linux formatted 4tb internal hard drive.
3 questions:
1) Will the little AMD 5350 be able to push video's via Plex to my Vizio TV Plex app (plus my other kindle / phone devices running a plex client? Or is it too weak for any type of transcoding- so may be limited on what files I already have can play?
2) Is there a way to create the pool while still having the files on the disk? It appears to be no, but wanted to check.
3) My plan was to use the external 4tb USB 3.0 drive as the backup drive. What is the best setup to keep things fast, but backed up. I assume the mirror would slow everything down too much. Can FREENAS schedule a nightly backup to another drive?
It had an older version of Ubuntu installed on it. I already installed FREENAS over the Ubuntu install.
The 4tb hard drive is full my entire CD collection, my entire collection of home photos and videos that I DO NOT WANT TO LOOSE.
I would like to:
Have 1 network drive of a 4tb hard drive - and use the usb 3.0 drive as a backup.
When setting up FREE NAS for the first time, I DO NOT WANT TO DELETE the data on the Linux formatted 4tb internal hard drive.
3 questions:
1) Will the little AMD 5350 be able to push video's via Plex to my Vizio TV Plex app (plus my other kindle / phone devices running a plex client? Or is it too weak for any type of transcoding- so may be limited on what files I already have can play?
2) Is there a way to create the pool while still having the files on the disk? It appears to be no, but wanted to check.
3) My plan was to use the external 4tb USB 3.0 drive as the backup drive. What is the best setup to keep things fast, but backed up. I assume the mirror would slow everything down too much. Can FREENAS schedule a nightly backup to another drive?