Hello, I'm a new parent in the process of collecting content for a simple kid plex server in our house. I'm going to use some components I have laying around so if you guys could take a look and see if I have the right idea that would be fantastic.
The motherboard I have is a Zotac IONITX-A-U
Atom 330 1.6GHz Dual core
4gb ddr2 800 ram
3 x sata 3Gb/s (newegg says raid support is 0/1/0+1)
The idea is to buy a cheap 3x3.5" bay mini-itx tower and 3x2T WD NAS drives, install Freenas and plex, kids have access to personal kid netflix through Roku on our main TV (60" 1080p).
I only care about the content on our main tv so I plan to rip all of our DVD/BluRays and then convert them down so we can view them as 1080p with direct stream.
Ok on to the questions:
1. The motherboard has 3 sata ports and newegg claims that raid configs supported is 0/1/0+1, (ill have to dig the manual out to verify) with this information how should I setup my raid?
2. With the 3 sata ports now full I should then have Freenas/plex installed with a USB thumbdrive?
3. I rip a Blu Ray and it comes out to around 30gb or so, how do you convert them down to the point where the quality is as good as it can be while still being able to direct stream and having a reasonable file size (1-5gb ish). Reword; how do I convert my rips to get the best quality on this Atom processor without transcoding. It seems with handbrake its kind of a guessing game as to what the file size and quality will be at, is there a way to know that sweet spot? All movies are intended to play on a 60" 1080p TV.
All input would be fantastic thanks.
The motherboard I have is a Zotac IONITX-A-U
Atom 330 1.6GHz Dual core
4gb ddr2 800 ram
3 x sata 3Gb/s (newegg says raid support is 0/1/0+1)
The idea is to buy a cheap 3x3.5" bay mini-itx tower and 3x2T WD NAS drives, install Freenas and plex, kids have access to personal kid netflix through Roku on our main TV (60" 1080p).
I only care about the content on our main tv so I plan to rip all of our DVD/BluRays and then convert them down so we can view them as 1080p with direct stream.
Ok on to the questions:
1. The motherboard has 3 sata ports and newegg claims that raid configs supported is 0/1/0+1, (ill have to dig the manual out to verify) with this information how should I setup my raid?
2. With the 3 sata ports now full I should then have Freenas/plex installed with a USB thumbdrive?
3. I rip a Blu Ray and it comes out to around 30gb or so, how do you convert them down to the point where the quality is as good as it can be while still being able to direct stream and having a reasonable file size (1-5gb ish). Reword; how do I convert my rips to get the best quality on this Atom processor without transcoding. It seems with handbrake its kind of a guessing game as to what the file size and quality will be at, is there a way to know that sweet spot? All movies are intended to play on a 60" 1080p TV.
All input would be fantastic thanks.