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Hi,

So i cant access FreeNAS management from within another bootable windows? I guess this makes sense as the FreeNAS OS would need to be online to track my disks.

In that case ill have to take another route. Transcoding would be a bonus as my wife likes to stream media to her android phone, but i would plan for the server to be half decent anway, with something in the region of an ivybridge i3 or i5 cpu with plenty of RAM, so hopefully this would be enough guts to handle transcoding for 1 or 2 streams?

I have 2x2Tb disks in my current server which i manually backup every now and then to 4x1Tb backup disks that i use as insurance (i guess you'd call this manual mirroring, lol ). Id like to move away from this caveman approach of having to back up my stuff manually, hence the questions about how best to integrate my TV server into a NAS. Id ideally like to look at RAID5 for my storage, though despite the huge disk redundancy im hearing good things about RAIDZ2. My main questions in this area are how i would set up a RAID array in windows, and whether there would be any issues with different sized disks in the array, as i would add for example a few 4Tb disks to the existing 2Tb's.

So to sum up, my shopping list would be an all in one server with these attributes:

Able to handle and stream high density media files over gigabit LAN
Able to reliably WOL when it is called by any clients on the network (cant emphasise this enough!)
Able to transcode 1 or 2 streams to android devices over wifi
Able to manage (and notify me of failures to) an array of HDD's in RAID 5 or Z2, probably in the region of 6 to 8Tb usable storage.
Able to have MP TV server integrated into the build for handing TV streams/recordings/timeshifting etc.
The server will be located in the garage, so noise isnt an issue for cooling fans etc. Im also not too worried about GPU power as the server wont really be used for running as an MP client.

Thanks again, all good stuff

<blockquote data-quote="eetaylog" data-source="post: 1152579" data-attributes="member: 47491">Hi,So i cant access FreeNAS management from within another bootable windows? I guess this makes sense as the FreeNAS OS would need to be online to track my disks.In that case ill have to take another route. Transcoding would be a bonus as my wife likes to stream media to her android phone, but i would plan for the server to be half decent anway, with something in the region of an ivybridge i3 or i5 cpu with plenty of RAM, so hopefully this would be enough guts to handle transcoding for 1 or 2 streams?I have 2x2Tb disks in my current server which i manually backup every now and then to 4x1Tb backup disks that i use as insurance (i guess you'd call this manual mirroring, lol <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />). Id like to move away from this caveman approach of having to back up my stuff manually, hence the questions about how best to integrate my TV server into a NAS. Id ideally like to look at RAID5 for my storage, though despite the huge disk redundancy im hearing good things about RAIDZ2. My main questions in this area are how i would set up a RAID array in windows, and whether there would be any issues with different sized disks in the array, as i would add for example a few 4Tb disks to the existing 2Tb's.So to sum up, my shopping list would be an all in one server with these attributes:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Able to handle and stream high density media files over gigabit LAN</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Able to reliably WOL when it is called by any clients on the network (cant emphasise this enough!)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Able to transcode 1 or 2 streams to android devices over wifi</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Able to manage (and notify me of failures to) an array of HDD's in RAID 5 or Z2, probably in the region of 6 to 8Tb usable storage.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Able to have MP TV server integrated into the build for handing TV streams/recordings/timeshifting etc.</li>
</ul>The server will be located in the garage, so noise isnt an issue for cooling fans etc. Im also not too worried about GPU power as the server wont really be used for running as an MP client.Thanks again, all good stuff <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite24" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs Up&nbsp; &nbsp; (y)" loading="lazy" data-shortname="(y)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="eetaylog, post: 1152579, member: 47491"] Hi, So i cant access FreeNAS management from within another bootable windows? I guess this makes sense as the FreeNAS OS would need to be online to track my disks. In that case ill have to take another route. Transcoding would be a bonus as my wife likes to stream media to her android phone, but i would plan for the server to be half decent anway, with something in the region of an ivybridge i3 or i5 cpu with plenty of RAM, so hopefully this would be enough guts to handle transcoding for 1 or 2 streams? I have 2x2Tb disks in my current server which i manually backup every now and then to 4x1Tb backup disks that i use as insurance (i guess you'd call this manual mirroring, lol :)). Id like to move away from this caveman approach of having to back up my stuff manually, hence the questions about how best to integrate my TV server into a NAS. Id ideally like to look at RAID5 for my storage, though despite the huge disk redundancy im hearing good things about RAIDZ2. My main questions in this area are how i would set up a RAID array in windows, and whether there would be any issues with different sized disks in the array, as i would add for example a few 4Tb disks to the existing 2Tb's. So to sum up, my shopping list would be an all in one server with these attributes: [LIST] [*]Able to handle and stream high density media files over gigabit LAN [*][B]Able to reliably WOL when it is called by any clients on the network [/B](cant emphasise this enough!) [*]Able to transcode 1 or 2 streams to android devices over wifi [*]Able to manage (and notify me of failures to) an array of HDD's in RAID 5 or Z2, probably in the region of 6 to 8Tb [I]usable[/I] storage. [*]Able to have MP TV server integrated into the build for handing TV streams/recordings/timeshifting etc. [/LIST] The server will be located in the garage, so noise isnt an issue for cooling fans etc. Im also not too worried about GPU power as the server wont really be used for running as an MP client. Thanks again, all good stuff (y) [/QUOTE]