but you won't get the software support that synology boxes come with, but you right you can make something cheaper on your own
Home Media Servers
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but you won't get the software support that synology boxes come with, but you right you can make something cheaper on your own
I have several external HDDs 2 Seagate 4TB ones and a 3GB WD one the WD is plugged up to my router and I dump files on there for network access purposes. I also have redundantly copied the entire contents of the 3TB WD to one of the Seagates and it still has a bit of space left.
Ideally I would have one place to dump all my media in a central location. I don't necessarily need a server that's running 24/7 but that would be nice. The more i read about turning an "old PC" into a freenas server the less appealing it sounds.
These off the shelf non-server grade components I'd be using to make the server aren't designed to be ran 24/7 365 and they'd seem to invite failure.
I run a subsonic server (apache tomcat engine), and it's been running great, on my regular ass PC, for a couple years now.
All my shyt is accessible from anywhere, it's
All my shyt is accessible from anywhere, it's
I just plug an external drive into my router 
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na still using hard drives although i mostly stream now since i got the gbox. not collecting as much as i used to
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How did pfsense work out for you? I'm about to build a pfsense router this weekend.In the process of upgrading mine now
Built a freenas box to test a couple months ago with old parts
1 thing I learned about freenas is they are ram hogs
The one above had 10gb and still struggled during read/writes.
Have a couple WD 4tb red's waiting to go in, a new cpu, psu, mobo, and 32gb of ram
Going to turn that POS above into a pfsense firewall & stuff it in the closet.