Home Storage Server

[robertwj]

I am running a i5 system that I use for gaming and Media (movies, music ect)

I have 4 hard drives in my PC which makes it hard for when I go out to LANs as my PC is HEAVY.
I was wondering what kind of performance i would have in movies and music playback if I built up a old PC at home, installed Linux and shared the media to my main PC - Would it be slower that having the drives connected directly to my main PC?

Network will all be 10/100 and the size of my media is around 4TB

 

[gfmalan]

I have 10tb Nas box with linux on, i stream with a 100 connection with no problems 1080
The problem i always have is copying data to the nas box.

Im connecting mostly usb3, take remote of nas and transfer data "locally"

 

[adam_g]

I am running a i5 system that I use for gaming and Media (movies, music ect)

I have 4 hard drives in my PC which makes it hard for when I go out to LANs as my PC is HEAVY.
I was wondering what kind of performance i would have in movies and music playback if I built up a old PC at home, installed Linux and shared the media to my main PC - Would it be slower that having the drives connected directly to my main PC?

Network will all be 10/100 and the size of my media is around 4TB

I have the same thing you are mentioning above.

to watch 1080p movies, play music, look at pictures from the media server at 10/100 will work perfectly if you are going to do file transfers like 20Gb+ you would want to go gigabit which is 100/1000 it would then be a little faster (80-100Mb/s then if the HDD was directly connected to your mobo which mine averages at 70Mb/s . this is normal HDD speed not SSD right?

 

[])ragon_\/oid]

Why not look into getting a HP Proliant Microserver N54L, and installing free nas or another Linux distro? I actually have one of them N54L's here serving most of my media. Best of all, it can take 5 hard drives.

 

[gfmalan]

Why not look into getting a HP Proliant Microserver N54L, and installing free nas or another Linux distro? I actually have one of them N54L's here serving most of my media. Best of all, it can take 5 hard drives.

That is exactly what I have, the OS is NAS4Free, it has a build in DLNA server.

 

[ponder]

Taking 3 hard drives out is not gonna make your pc much lighter...

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

All I can say is that you're going to want to slit your wrists when you try copy stuff over the network at 100Mbps. Streaming will be fine but trying to copy anything slightly large over the lan is going to take an age.

If you decide to set up a NAS box rather take the time and ensure your network is gigabit.

 

[DominionZA]

All I can say is that you're going to want to slit your wrists when you try copy stuff over the network at 100Mbps. Streaming will be fine but trying to copy anything slightly large over the lan is going to take an age.

If you decide to set up a NAS box rather take the time and ensure your network is gigabit.

True story. I eventually too the plunge and wired the entire house (every room with a point) gigabit. Sorted!

Tried the microserver route for storage - and worked well when it worked. When I had issues, I was too inexperienced to fix them and lost everything across the drives.
I now stick with a windows 8 machine as my server and Windows storage spaces to manage my setup. Had one drive fail a while back and swapping it out was a breeze. No losses.

 

[ponder]

When I had issues, I was too experienced to fix them and lost everything across the drives.

 

[DominionZA]

My bad. Fixed