All I am looking for is a recommendation from a few of the experts around here.
The main reason I built my FreeNAS box was to use as mass storage for my media. I also intended to install ZoneMinder and store 30-60 days worth of events. I doubt I'll store 24/7 video streams.
I've been reading up on installing Zoneminder on FreeBSD and also reading some of the FreeNAS specific information (https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/zoneminder-on-freenas.14463/)
Given I can spare ~$400 and build a separate box and do daily moves of data from the Ubuntu server to FreeNAS, is it even worth the trouble to build it on FreeNAS? My FreeNAS machine is pretty beefy, I'm not worried about the resources. I am more worried about three things: 1 - Spending hours and hours trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. 2 - Compromising my data. 3 - Power consumption.
I can mitigate #'s 1 & 2 by not mitigating #3 and just building a new machine.
Any advice?
The main reason I built my FreeNAS box was to use as mass storage for my media. I also intended to install ZoneMinder and store 30-60 days worth of events. I doubt I'll store 24/7 video streams.
I've been reading up on installing Zoneminder on FreeBSD and also reading some of the FreeNAS specific information (https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/zoneminder-on-freenas.14463/)
Given I can spare ~$400 and build a separate box and do daily moves of data from the Ubuntu server to FreeNAS, is it even worth the trouble to build it on FreeNAS? My FreeNAS machine is pretty beefy, I'm not worried about the resources. I am more worried about three things: 1 - Spending hours and hours trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. 2 - Compromising my data. 3 - Power consumption.
I can mitigate #'s 1 & 2 by not mitigating #3 and just building a new machine.
Any advice?