Thinking about starting a digital movie collection through Vudu

[tHa ShIzNiT]

Now that I've heard more...I have even more questions. I think I'm gonna head out to Frys today and grab a 3-4 TB WD Red drive and possibly throw it onto my old Q6600 system. I am still not sure what OS I want to run on it though. I'm looking into UnRAID but I think I'm only gonna buy one hard drive for now (but will probably buy more soon), so do I need a RAID based OS? I did see that it can run Plex Media server though.

Furthermore, on the FreeNAS web page it shows a Plex Media Server plugin. Wouldn't that do transcoding? So FreeNAS can do transcoding?

Hell, I could even run windows I guess.

And one more question...in regards to Indy's post...how are you running these VMs...and why? That might be opening up a can of worms but if you could give me a quick answer.

 

[sdifox]

Now that I've heard more...I have even more questions. I think I'm gonna head out to Frys today and grab a 3-4 TB WD Red drive and possibly throw it onto my old Q6600 system. I am still not sure what OS I want to run on it though. I'm looking into UnRAID but I think I'm only gonna buy one hard drive for now (but will probably buy more soon), so do I need a RAID based OS? I did see that it can run Plex Media server though.

Furthermore, on the FreeNAS web page it shows a Plex Media Server plugin. Wouldn't that do transcoding? So FreeNAS can do transcoding?

Hell, I could even run windows I guess.

And one more question...in regards to Indy's post...how are you running these VMs...and why? That might be opening up a can of worms but if you could give me a quick answer.

you need to make up your mind first. and there is no raid with 1 hdd.

Plex plugin is to serve video streams, not transcode. Freenas is based on Linux, so the usb memory stick is used as the partition for the OS and FreeNAS.

FreeNAS doesn't run in Windows. VM is probably beyond your grasp :biggrin:

ESXi or MS Hyper-V are both VM systems. So you create virtual machines and each of them run their own software. The physical server is hosting the various VMs and each VM gets allocated resources when it needs it.

I don't think you need nor able to get into that.

Make sure you install the x64 edition of FreeNAS or the Plex Plugin won't work.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Now that I've heard more...I have even more questions. I think I'm gonna head out to Frys today and grab a 3-4 TB WD Red drive and possibly throw it onto my old Q6600 system. I am still not sure what OS I want to run on it though. I'm looking into UnRAID but I think I'm only gonna buy one hard drive for now (but will probably buy more soon), so do I need a RAID based OS? I did see that it can run Plex Media server though.

Furthermore, on the FreeNAS web page it shows a Plex Media Server plugin. Wouldn't that do transcoding? So FreeNAS can do transcoding?

Hell, I could even run windows I guess.

And one more question...in regards to Indy's post...how are you running these VMs...and why? That might be opening up a can of worms but if you could give me a quick answer.

I run Windows 2012 R2 Datacenter on the server and use Hyper V. I do it for fun and for my consulting job for testing and training.