Hey guys,
I just setup FreeNAS for the first time tonight so I am by no means an expert on it.
I am using a newer desktop machine booting the USB with FreeNAS. I am currently only using one 2TB external HDD for my data. It had data on it but I ended up wiping it.
What I want to accomplish is this... I have multiple WDTV Live Plus machines in my home and I own about 6 external HDDs total. At least 4 of them are dedicated to movies, mostly 1080 mkvs. I would like these to live on my network so I dont have to duplicate the media per tv.
I was able to watch a sample.wmv file that I put on my newly added volume, so its shared and I added a user. So all that seems fine.
The problem Im having is now Im up to the point of putting data back on my drive (going to stick to just one until I get this working smoothly) and its soooo slow. I can only see the volume while shared. I cant see the drive anymore when plugging it into my windows 7 machine (my laptop), its there in computer management but no drive letter.
Ok, I know I need to upgrade some of my equipment cause some of it (hubs, NIC, etc) is a little aged, but is it normal that I only get 700-800KB/second when copying data back to that new share?
Ive gotten to be missing something. Hardware upgrades are coming hopefully some this weekend. PC is fine (6gigs of ram). So do i need gigabit NIC, gigabit router / hubs to make this speed up? I have read somewhere about cat5e... does that matter?
Can someone help? Ultimately I would like to control my media remotely via my tablet... play this file to this source...
Also is there another way to put the data on the external drive now that its set up as a cifs. Also I noticed when viewing the drive via Computer Management > Storage on my Win7 machine ... it showed 2gigs portion and then the rest of my drive.
Any help would be greatly appreciated... Im headed to bed tonight on this one... its got me beat right now. :)
Ken
I just setup FreeNAS for the first time tonight so I am by no means an expert on it.
I am using a newer desktop machine booting the USB with FreeNAS. I am currently only using one 2TB external HDD for my data. It had data on it but I ended up wiping it.
What I want to accomplish is this... I have multiple WDTV Live Plus machines in my home and I own about 6 external HDDs total. At least 4 of them are dedicated to movies, mostly 1080 mkvs. I would like these to live on my network so I dont have to duplicate the media per tv.
I was able to watch a sample.wmv file that I put on my newly added volume, so its shared and I added a user. So all that seems fine.
The problem Im having is now Im up to the point of putting data back on my drive (going to stick to just one until I get this working smoothly) and its soooo slow. I can only see the volume while shared. I cant see the drive anymore when plugging it into my windows 7 machine (my laptop), its there in computer management but no drive letter.
Ok, I know I need to upgrade some of my equipment cause some of it (hubs, NIC, etc) is a little aged, but is it normal that I only get 700-800KB/second when copying data back to that new share?
Ive gotten to be missing something. Hardware upgrades are coming hopefully some this weekend. PC is fine (6gigs of ram). So do i need gigabit NIC, gigabit router / hubs to make this speed up? I have read somewhere about cat5e... does that matter?
Can someone help? Ultimately I would like to control my media remotely via my tablet... play this file to this source...
Also is there another way to put the data on the external drive now that its set up as a cifs. Also I noticed when viewing the drive via Computer Management > Storage on my Win7 machine ... it showed 2gigs portion and then the rest of my drive.
Any help would be greatly appreciated... Im headed to bed tonight on this one... its got me beat right now. :)
Ken