Project - FreeNAS

[vyroburn]

Hey OCC,

 

I was just gonna let yall in on my little project that I have going. I decided to take some of my old hardware and make a freenas box.

 

Stage 1 - Build FreeNAS Server

 

 

Turns out I had (6) 250gig hard drives. and (1) 1.5tb external. Currently all of my movies, software, and backup's are on the external. We all know that is a terrible backup medium, so I build a ZFS raid to start moving things to.

 

some screen shots

 

system specs

 

Array and external sizes.

 

Stage 2 - Convert Movies to H.264 / AC3 (going to take 25days to convert all) (thank god for handbrake batch)

 

 

 

stay tuned, going to work on the streaming from the freenas box to the roku's

Edited October 1, 2012 by vyroburn

[suedenim]

Nice one. I was considering FreeNAS or Linux box for a home server so I will definitely be interested in how you get on

[vyroburn]

82 hours later and I am Still not even half way through converting. And look at those nasty CPU temps.... (UGH) (Macs apparently don't have good cooling).

Edited October 5, 2012 by vyroburn

[Onion]

Poor thing, 82 hours of load.

[freddie]

saw this is on distrowatch a few days ago, still in beta?

[vyroburn]

Poor thing, 82 hours of load.

 

Yeah, I may give it a rest soon. Its been cranking away.

 

saw this is on distrowatch a few days ago, still in beta?

 

I believe the distro I installed was non-beta, 8.2.0-Release-p1-x64 (r11950)