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So a server like my DR NAS may be fine for you (see my signature for its description). Considering your description, I would say RaidZ-2 is surely what you need.

Because to resilver requires to re-read everything, not to be able to detect and fix single errors at this moment is really not good. Whenever you have a an incident, you can not recover from a second, no matter that second incident is the lost of a complete hard drive or just a read error on any of the remaining drives. You should avoid RaidZ1 because a single redundant disk is too high risk. You will need NAS hard drives like the Seagate Iron Wolf or Western Digital Red series. Desktop, laptop and gaming systems are not meant to run 24 / 7. You definitely need server grade hardware. How much upload bandwidth do you have as of now ?

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Many Internet Service Providers give you asymetric pipes : more download than upload. So what is the volume you have to store on day 1 ? How much do you expect to grow that volume every year ? How many concurrent streams do you need to serve ?Īs for streaming from Internet, that will require a remote access solution that will be better served by an actual firewall like pfSense than FreeNAS or a basic, standard home router.Īlso, streaming to Internet translates to upload speed on your Internet access. The first question I have to ask you is about budget : How big or small is your budget ?Īlso, the best solution is the one that answers the needs the best. Well, that's all the information I can think of to start. There's just so many out there and so many different ones are suggested that I just don't know what has the best value-to-performance for what I want. The biggest hang up I have is picking a CPU. For storage I will probably go with shucking the drives out of WD Easystores. I know Plex suggests a CPU passmark of 20p stream, but I would want enough cushion to stream 4k content. I know FreeNAS likes RAM so I would probably go for 32 or 64gb depending on what people think. I was planning on using FreeNAS and to use Plex for media streaming as it seems to be the most popular.

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I know the resolution level is important when it comes to streaming CPU power, so most of my content is just 1080p but there will be the occasional 4k movie.

Ability to have multiple movie streams going, with the ability to stream in the house and from away (underlined because this is important).Ability to access the NAS from anywhere.

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I don't need a crazy amount of space, I was thinking maybe two 8tb drives? If needs grow in the future I will just have to upgrade.

Have a place to store files, movies, and music.

Consider this as if you have the same needs and are going to build it for yourself I'm looking for information on, best parts to use, cases people have used, and any other suggestions you can think of. I'm not very knowledgable on this topic so as much help I can get the better. Some of the best posts I've read have been from here so I decided to create an account and hope I can get some help through my own post. Throughout my weeks of researching I've found some forum posts about the same topic but they usually get de-railed rather quickly and don't resolve.

It seems like the best thing for my needs is to make a NAS that has enough CPU power for media streaming. Unfortunately, the hard drive failed on me, assumingely because it really wasn't built for that type of usage. Its definitely not the best way to do this but it worked. Up until recently, I have been using an external hard drive that plugs into my router via USB to stream media files to multiple TVs and for storage. I have been researching a NAS build for weeks now and I just cannot find any answers.