Hi,
I am new to Freenas and this forum, no doubt I'll be asking a lot of questions going forward to help me setup my Freenas, so if I am asking questions already been answered please be patient with me.
Hopefully given time and experience I will be able to offer help as well to new newbies (if that makes sense).
I had a Qnap TS-453 Pro which failed on me just over a week ago, although I had a backup of most of my data I was unable to revive the NAS it appears the Mobo had failed.
After reading lots of information I decided Freenas and my own build NAS was best way forward (as I could replace hardware for any future failures or upgrades required).
New setup is: -
Gigabyte GA-H97N Mobo
Intel Quad Core i5-4460 @ 3.2Ghz
DDR3 16GB RAM (2x 8gb)
4 x 4tb SATA HDDs (from previous NAS)
1 x Kingston 120GB SSD (OS) Installed with FreeNAS.
I am now looking at setting up this to be mainly used as a Plex server with media stored and accesible mainly on my local network via a couple of TV's, FireTV and a couple of laptops (windows 10 and 7).
Regards,
I am new to Freenas and this forum, no doubt I'll be asking a lot of questions going forward to help me setup my Freenas, so if I am asking questions already been answered please be patient with me.
Hopefully given time and experience I will be able to offer help as well to new newbies (if that makes sense).
I had a Qnap TS-453 Pro which failed on me just over a week ago, although I had a backup of most of my data I was unable to revive the NAS it appears the Mobo had failed.
After reading lots of information I decided Freenas and my own build NAS was best way forward (as I could replace hardware for any future failures or upgrades required).
New setup is: -
Gigabyte GA-H97N Mobo
Intel Quad Core i5-4460 @ 3.2Ghz
DDR3 16GB RAM (2x 8gb)
4 x 4tb SATA HDDs (from previous NAS)
1 x Kingston 120GB SSD (OS) Installed with FreeNAS.
I am now looking at setting up this to be mainly used as a Plex server with media stored and accesible mainly on my local network via a couple of TV's, FireTV and a couple of laptops (windows 10 and 7).
Regards,