Not trying to defend the big streaming services or anything but… Having worked for a similar streaming service/media network, the problem with the licenses is much more in the hands of the publishers then it is for the streaming services. Sometimes they just demand obscene amounts of money for a license even for relatively “unpopular” shows. And I’m even including House in “unpopular”, not because noone knows it, but rather because a lot of people have already seen it so the demand isn’t even that high anymore.
But anyway, waiting for the part with the VMs since that is really what I’m interested in. I’ve contemplated going for FreeNAS a few times already but I don’t know if it’ll meat the requirements I have (them being the GF needing to be able to use that thing as well, because I’m not going to download all that anime for her).
I was offered a large sum of money in exchange for advertising streaming services. Naturally I declined since I am a person of high moral standard and integrity who won’t sell out to big corporations just because they offer a convenient product. Convenient like Netflix, the streaming service with the biggest library in the world! Original content and movies can be had where you want it, when you want it. Now available for just 9.99$/month.
My question was more of… What kind of hardware we really need? Do we need enterprise server hardware or we may do just fine with a second hand fm2+ system with a couple standard desktop hard drives?
I get it, they use what they have, but let’s be fair here… This was one of the least informative videos they have made…
Long story short basically trash does the job. In the long run it depends what else you want to do with it. If you want to set up some VMs on it you better have some cores ready to work with. If you’re installing Plex you need some power on the CPU side to do the transcoding work.
On the old channel wendell built the NASFeratu with the 8 core Atom and streamed to like 3 devices simultaneously. You don’t need something insanely power hungry, but something with a bit of power output.
I would also like to use it for statistical calculation for R that my wife is currently doing on her MacBook Pro which is woefully underpowered for the task. I figure for the price it can’t really be beat but I’m not all that familiar with enterprise equipment. Good idea or no?
Edit: tagging @wendell in hopes for some feedback. I don’t know what I don’t know about this machine, as even searching Intel Ark doesn’t give me a listing for a 5535. Might be a low power chip at 2GHz? Would this be worth playing with for $80?
Can we expand on this hard drive setup? Freenas is not communicating to those disks directly they are going through the raid card… unless it was in IT mode?
It is kinda - at about 3:10 they mention that it is possible to make a media server on a RPi but don’t expect 4k encoding on it so if it runs on RPi everything from core2duo will be fine and FM2+ ( as you mentioned) will be good too.
Still at 5 min will focus on video but I like the forepl…uhh… acting. Beautiful hair @kreestuh!
