Tears4Fears
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Is there anyone reading? keke
It's so quiet.
It's so quiet.
just fyi, for plex, you need a processor more powerful than 1.6ghz if you're thinking of doing on the go transcoding at 480p, for 720p and 1080p even higher.actually i am now using dns320 with fun plug.
serve me well as it can download torrent (tranmission) and serve movies via dlna (twonky).
however, it does not support plex and i am looking at my next nas which can support torrent download and plex.
thinking of buying off the shelf or just buy a second hand mac mini. any thoughts?
synology is out as it does not support plex with transcoding or something like that.
Is there anyone reading? keke
It's so quiet.
~大.芒.果~;77647726 said:i'm reading it! have found it very interesting and was a project i wanted to embark on too, but it was going to be too expensive (casing itself is the worst, like u said on ur blog, i didn't know abt ur third party sources from china though ), then i bought a microserver instead
I am not sure what is the motivation of your project. From cost & power saving wise... you cannot beat the $109 DLink DNS 320L.
Other valid reasons includes 1) performance & 2) just to have some fun.
I got a DNS 320L & installed Twonky Pro & use it as a media server. It's so efficient I moved all the files from my Ubuntu server to it and comtemplating to get more of it. 320L + a 3TB HDD cost only S$109 + 168 = S$277!!! A price point you cannot beat.
If you are going to run any Windows on your BYON, then it's even less cost effective.
Doesn't a microserver consume much more power?
If you are living in those new flats with storeroom / bomb shelters, it will neat to shell the microserver in there.
~大.芒.果~;77661200 said:150W power supply...uses an amd n40l. its max tdp is 15W, so on idle its really quite friendly
set all the HDDs to idle after 5 mins of inactivity, so they'll spin down. so its really only the processor running most of the time.
yes
~大.芒.果~;77661730 said:
~大.芒.果~;77680042 said:i dun have a power monitor - wanted to buy one too.
i remember reading some angmoh saying he bought this for the enclosure ...so i believe it can be replaced. most of the stuff can be taken out.
how's the performance of the various OSes? would you test with other OS like Windows 7/8/server 2012/samba (any linux)?
Unregistered unRAID Server is fully functional supporting up to 3 hard drives.
huh? i thought windows is quite power efficient since they have drivers for all the intel power saving features? lol...
try the 3 disk version of unRAID first? it's free...
unRAID have similar to raid5, which gives you 1 disk failure (despite having 6-7 disks) only with no data loss... also, another feature is that if you lose 2 disks, you only lose the data on those 2 disks, but not the entire array...
windows 8 have built in RAID5/1/0, linux has RAID 6/5/1/0...