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Just installed my nas4free on an old system and love it! i use it to hold mostly all my media and on my main system i use plex server that grabs the media off the nas4free server then on all other machines/roku devices i use plex player to play the media... My goal is to have BOTH nas4free and plex server on same machine.
the only method i can come up with is running nas4free virtually.
I want to build a new server
SPECS:
CPU: AMD A6,A8 or A10 APU (if this is overkill let me know)
RAM: 16gb
OS HDD: 1x laptop 7200rpm 200gb - For Windows 7(old one that i have))
Dedicated NAS HDD: 3 x 3TB Red Drives in RAID 5

I was wondering if this would be possible and if so what is the disadvantages of running nas4free in a virtual enviroment
Can i still dedicate the 3 drives to nas4free and manage the raid5 through it?

Sorry Im not to familiar with virtualization

There is not such thing as overkill, but mind that all of them CPUs are rather power hungry, so if the electricity in your area is not cheap, you will be getting enormous bills at the end of each month
Even with the slowest A6 APU you would be looking at well over 120W power consumption under full load. The same setup with Intel Ivy Bridge CPU like Celeron G1610 uses around 80W with 6 HDDs and 1 SSD under full load... It would be even less power hungry if you decided to go with the Haswell platform, but be careful with that one, as FreeBSD 9.1 does not support their new Intel NICs.

Ahh good call I wasnt thinking of that. I guess I may just go with an i3 then. As far as the whole virtual thing. Do you have any advice ? Can u creat raid inside of it?

please read this regarding virtualization. it applies to nas4free as well.

http://forums.freenas.org/threads/pleas ... ine.12484/

dang... guess that answers my question and its a no on virtual environments.

Plan:
Build new nas4free system
Build an htpc that hosts plex server and pulls from NAS

tfast500 wrote:dang... guess that answers my question and its a no on virtual environments.

Plan:
Build new nas4free system
Build an htpc that hosts plex server and pulls from NAS

Sounds like a plan If you are however planning to run 2 separate PCs I would advice you to put more horse power into HTPC ad make the NAS just basic with loads of HDDs. Simple Celeron or i3 would be more than enough for the NAS, just get yourself a mobo with loads SATA ports For HTPC I would be even tempted to go with i5-2500K or i5-3570K on mini-ITX board.

Do you mean Plex Media Server? A FreeBSD port is available now and you should be able to install it in a jail under NAS4Free.

tfast500 wrote:dang... guess that answers my question and its a no on virtual environments.

Plan:
Build new nas4free system
Build an htpc that hosts plex server and pulls from NAS

done: http://www.forums.nas4free.org/viewtopi ... =79&t=4971

yes plex server, thanks raulfg3 sounds like exactly what i wanted.... still learning nas4free, but cant wait to try this!