What NAS do you have that you can fit 8 drives in it and how much did it cost, if you don't mind me asking?
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What NAS do you have that you can fit 8 drives in it and how much did it cost, if you don't mind me asking?
bullzeye.za
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Depends what you want the text file to look like.
There's a "tree" program that might be installed on freeNAS, outputs like this:
lucifir
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was thinking of getting this server (as mentioned before) ... was put off by some other comments .... but I can't think of another PC that can server the same purpose and use as little power .... maybe this PC will be fine for streaming to multiple TVs, if a better GPU is utilised??
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Yes, what's it called? Googling 'tree FreeNAS' doesn't give me what I'm looking for.
Should take a look at flexraid, I'm running it in a windows environment. Got sickbeard, headphones, couch potato, DC hub, apex, DLNA server, YAMJ and a bunch of other things running all at the same time and the micro server handles it all fine.
Flexraid works with ntfs file format, no need to reformat drives etc, u can take drives out without cause havoc, add drives at any time etc. mine runs an update once a day in the night, the drive is using the onbaord sata port with the bios hack(easy to do) its only a 2tb drive for parity but I'm going to be upgrading to 3tb soonish... It fits nicely in the DVD bay with the 250gb stock drive..
Streaming to media players? Mine currently serves 3 media players and a Samsung TV while running a lot of other apps for downloading etc. works 100%
bullzeye.za
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Didn't take me too long to fill 4 x 2TB and I can only fit about another 4 drives into my NAS, so may as well go as big as I can.
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The program is just called "tree" --> Do you have an SSH connection to the server? Try just typing the word 'tree' and see what happens.
Otherwise.. I am sure there is a freeBSD alternative somewhere.
lucifir
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ok .. someone else said it does not work so well streaming to multiple tvs at the same time .. especially when they playing different content ...
oh well ... will give it a shot and see how it works out :twisted:
so wheres a good place to get one of these servers from??
DominionZA
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That someone was me
I managed to do 3 x 720p streams quite easily. It was when I threw a 1080p in the mix that things went pear shaped.
I now use an old Core2Duo as my media server and HP as a 10TB FreeNAS box. The Core2Duo struggles sometimes too when being hit with multiple streams (particularly when transcoding is required). Looking for a second hand i3 to take over this function now.
Don't know about 3 TV's since I don't own that many, but 2 definitely work flawlessly, even when playing simultaneously.
That's right, I was doing TWO SHOWS at SAME TIME!
DominionZA
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Ye, that will work hundreds. 3 it gets flaky and 1080p as one of those 3 kills it slowly.
On average mine has to handle 3 streams and depending who is at home doing what it could go to 5 or 6. Little HP not up to this unfortunately.
If transcoding not needed then no problem. Often is though.
lucifir
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haha .. thanks for the info ... was also considering an i3, but thought that a better GPU should be able to handle the graphics/streaming better than a faster CPU ... what GPU do u have in ur HP??
even if I can get it to do 2 TVs in 1080p simultaneously, that would be fine ... highly doubt more than 2 would be used at the same time
transcoding? :wtf: You must be using Plex.
Have you tried using OpenELEC on the players? OpenELEC has no transcoding afaik...
520GT. i'm not sure a GPU will help if the HP is only going to be used to serve the files, or if it's even needed actually.
CPU is most important, and extra RAM can't hurt..... but GPU is only needed if you are outputting through HDMI from the HP itself. (for sound, too)
Edit: transcoding might be better with a GPU - but for streaming, not a chance.
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DominionZA
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Sigh... this XBMC vs OpenElec vs Plex thing keeps coming up.
I have tried them all and Plex suits my purposes perfectly.If you can get OpenElec working on my bluray player in the lounge, Roku2 in game room, LG TV in bedroom and 3 laptops in kids rooms then I will change. IE: no extra device. Use existing.
To top it off, I need a means for TV Shows to be tracked so when I am done with one episode, the next is available in the queue - and across the rooms. Not just one.
If I stop watching a movie in the lounge and go continue in my game room, it must resume from where I left off in the lounge.
AFAIK, neither XBMC nor OE can provide a multi room setup like Plex? Plex also coming with multi user to add to multi room.
Transcoding is the least of my worries. Just need a machine that can cope with a big load.
DominionZA
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GPU can aid with transcoding - I think.
nah man, if you have your setup going on plex, cool - I was just suggesting OpenELEC because I thought transcoding was an issue for you.
yeah but transcoding is done client side though, not server side (I think)
IE: on the player, not the Server
yeah but transcoding is done client side though, not server side (I think)
IE: on the player, not the Server
DrJohnZoidberg
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I wish Plex had a Linux client, I would probably move over then.