Hey everbody,
I‘ve come into the next round of Planing my personal NAS.
As i Mentioned in previous threads i want to use FreeNAS with ZFS (RAID-Z2) for the storage of my movies and music and photos.
Maybe i want to stream mkv files (movies) - but only for myself (which means that there a few clients (mobile, pc and Tv) maybe two at the same time).
Now to my questions :
I‘ve come into the next round of Planing my personal NAS.
As i Mentioned in previous threads i want to use FreeNAS with ZFS (RAID-Z2) for the storage of my movies and music and photos.
Maybe i want to stream mkv files (movies) - but only for myself (which means that there a few clients (mobile, pc and Tv) maybe two at the same time).
Now to my questions :
- I have read that there are differences about unbuffered ECC Ram ans registered ECC Ram. What do I need for my needs ?
- On a price comparing website from my country I saw some mainboards which also offer cpus (for example Xeon D-1527). Now the question - is this cpu ready for those needs even if mkv files (Dolby atom, DTS HD, DTS:X and all those new codecs) can stream properly to any device or do I need to transcode Them ? Or isn’t it necessary for me to use those CPU’s and use just a “normal” (for example Pentium)
- And what is more important for this kind of server - higher GHz oder more cores ? And does the generation of the CPU even matter ?
- Last question which came to my mind yesterday afternoon - later, when my server is in operation, what happens if some components get broken ? For example if a hdd gets broken, will FReeNAS tell me that I have to change the HDD ? And what about components such as RAM, Motherboard and CPU ? Can I simply change it and again it runs alright ?