So, I have been running FreeNAS off of a Dell r710. It is working well except that power consumption is pretty heavy. I have a second r710 that is running as a camera server, ubuntu server with zoneminder. Not crazy about ZM and have been looking at Blue Iris for a while. I use FreeNAS for basic file, photo, video storage. Was hoping to set up Plex server but have not yet gotten around to it. The video would be home videos, not movies.
Work is giving me an old Dell XPS with an i7, 2600, 3.4GHz processor and 16G of RAM.
In order to save on my electrical bill, was thinking of running Blue Iris off of FreeNAS to shelter everything on one machine. I tried jails before and had a little trouble with it so it would be a learning curve.
Can anyone give me some feedback on hardware if the i7 is sufficient to try this setup?
Thank you.
Work is giving me an old Dell XPS with an i7, 2600, 3.4GHz processor and 16G of RAM.
In order to save on my electrical bill, was thinking of running Blue Iris off of FreeNAS to shelter everything on one machine. I tried jails before and had a little trouble with it so it would be a learning curve.
Can anyone give me some feedback on hardware if the i7 is sufficient to try this setup?
Thank you.