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Offline devil

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[EN] NAS-System for Media-Backup and Media-Streaming
« on: 2013/09/06, 15:23:20 »
I just started looking into easy ways to set up a server to serve a house with pcs, notebooks, smartphones and a tv-set  with media files (mostly movies and music). The tv will have a chromecast-like device (without the limitations) (like the new Huawei MediaQ M310). So to mind comes a NAS with 2 disks and two more attachable external disks through USB, which would give it 16 TB storage space.

Has anyone set up such a system (with a NAS or otherwise) and has recommendations? Thanks for your answers.

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RE: NAS-System for Media-Backup and Media-Streaming
« Reply #1 on: 2013/09/06, 15:57:14 »
My house is also littered with notebooks and smartphones, but I have not (yet) set up a single fileserver for all users.  Knowing how easy the NAS setup is, I see the temptation to go that way.  But I think I would rather get a mobo with 6 Gb/s SATA, and put it in a mid-size tower with 6 of these drives in a single BTRFS filesystem, with perhaps Debian 7 OS.  I think that would give good performance, stability, and ease of administration, even if it would be more effort to set up in the first place.

That's my two cents worth.  :)

EDIT: here's an inexpensive mobo that would work.
System76 Oryx Pro, Intel Core i7-11800H, SSD 970 EVO Plus;  Asus ROG STRIX X299-E, Core i7-7740X, Nvidia GTX-1060, dual monitors, SSD 860 EVO

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RE: NAS-System for Media-Backup and Media-Streaming
« Reply #2 on: 2013/09/07, 08:28:11 »
i have a QNAP nas, an intel based model and it is really nice, i don't need to install debian on it beacuse qnap's firmware is based on linux, it provides an option to install ipkg as a module and with this module you can install all you need to get a chroot with a full debian system. This way i have the heaven: qnap's firmware for management (NFS, streaming and via qpkg i get mldonkey, twonkymedia a torrent/http download station, dropbox and google drive integration, and a lot of goodies such a DDNS free setup to get FTP, web filemanager and so on) and debian choort for extras (apt-cacher-ng server mainly). Qnap hardware is much more expansive than others, after 3 years i have to say it deserves it all.

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NAS-System for Media-Backup and Media-Streaming
« Reply #3 on: 2013/09/07, 11:22:24 »
Just this morning I got a HP ProLiant MicroServer N54L which is supposed to replace an Intel SS4200 that died on me two weeks ago. I'm planning to run nox on a flash drive and fit 4 disks in. With an Bios-upgrade (an unofficial mod I think) even 5 disks should work. I hope to get it working later today, but right now the sun is shining...
Let me know if you want to know more.

greetings,
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« Reply #4 on: 2013/09/07, 14:26:29 »
I have a HP microserver n40L with 4 3TB Drives and installed openmediavault on it.
I've installed a twin TV-Sat card and vdr from e-toby. Works very well for me.

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« Reply #5 on: 2013/09/07, 18:23:31 »
Hi,

I've built my own server a few years ago:
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server ~ # inxi -v5
System:    Host server Kernel 3.9-1-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Distro SolydXK 1 solydxk
CPU:       Dual core AMD Athlon 4850e (-MCP-) cache 1024 KB flags (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 svm)
           Clock Speeds: (1) 2400.00 MHz (2) 2400.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card NVIDIA C77 [GeForce 8200] X.org 1.12.4 Res: 118x32 Gfx Data: N/A for root
Audio:     Card NVIDIA MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S High Definition Audio driver snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version k3.9-1-amd64
Network:   Card NVIDIA MCP77 Ethernet driver forcedeth
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 12018.2GB (-) 1: /dev/sda WDC_WD30EURS 3000.6GB
           2: /dev/sdb WDC_WD30EURS 3000.6GB 3: /dev/sdc WDC_WD30EURS 3000.6GB
           4: /dev/sdd WDC_WD30EURS 3000.6GB 5: /dev/sde KingSpec_KSD 15.8GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 13G used: 6.0G (49%) fs: rootfs ID:/ size: 13G used: 6.0G (49%) fs: ext4
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 28.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 61C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes 199 Uptime 43 days Memory 2768.3/3713.5MB Client Shell inxi 1.4.23

/dev/sda: WDC WD30EURS-63R8UY0: 38°C
/dev/sdb: WDC WD30EURS-63SPKY0: 35°C
/dev/sdc: WDC WD30EURS-63SPKY0: 35°C
/dev/sdd: WDC WD30EURS-63SPKY0: 36°C

In April this year I changed the disks from 4 x 1TB to 4 x 3 TB. The disks are in a raid 5 with mdadm and serve their data via nfs. Of cause it has a tv-card (TechnoTrend TT-budget S2-3200 HDTV-S2) and vdr is installed.

Regards dsat

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« Reply #6 on: 2013/09/07, 23:27:32 »
devil,

you sure know that the latest c't magazin (20/13 - 9.9.13) has some articles on NAS and their implementation. If not, you know now. :)

Gruß
oduffo

btw, for me my synology works very well

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« Reply #7 on: 2013/09/07, 23:37:51 »
good to hear, oduffo. I plan to acquire a DS231+ Synology.

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« Reply #8 on: 2013/09/08, 21:22:36 »
Thanks for the input so far. As the mentioned house is in the US of A, I will have to find out what works over there, when it comes to streaming to and recording from TV. (the latter being not so overly important). I have not made a decision yet between a readymade NAS like Sinology (their big advantage is, that the software has passed the WAF-test, whereas openmediavault is eyed a bit critical by my wife (too many options, not easy to grasp on first look) and a selfbuilt rig.

greetz
devil