NAS distro
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 7:43 am
Not directly Mythtv related but potentially useful.
I recently set up a redundant machine as a NAS.
I initially tried using FreeNAS, but due to hardware incompatibles had to abandon it.
I was unsure what to use instead, then i found OpenMediaVault.
http://www.openmediavault.org/
This is a Debian based NAS distro created by a former FreeNAS developer.
Have got OMV (for short) running on a msi 975 motherboard with a intel E2160 dual core pentium cpu and 2 GB ddr2 and an intel pcie nic.
Only got a single 1tb drive in use for storage at the moment, OS is on a Kingston SSDnow S100 8gb.
Admin is done through a web interface, which works well. So no keyboard, screen or mouse needed after install. Can ssh in if you need the console.
Performance wise using FTP i have saturated Gigabit over my home network. 120MBytes/s 991 MBits/s as proven below
output from FileZilla log 13/3/2012
File transfer successful, transferred 2.6 GB in 22 seconds
File transfer successful, transferred 1.2 GB in 10 seconds
I am not immediately planning to use OMV as storage for mythtv recordings but no reason why it could not be
I recently set up a redundant machine as a NAS.
I initially tried using FreeNAS, but due to hardware incompatibles had to abandon it.
I was unsure what to use instead, then i found OpenMediaVault.
http://www.openmediavault.org/
This is a Debian based NAS distro created by a former FreeNAS developer.
Have got OMV (for short) running on a msi 975 motherboard with a intel E2160 dual core pentium cpu and 2 GB ddr2 and an intel pcie nic.
Only got a single 1tb drive in use for storage at the moment, OS is on a Kingston SSDnow S100 8gb.
Admin is done through a web interface, which works well. So no keyboard, screen or mouse needed after install. Can ssh in if you need the console.
Performance wise using FTP i have saturated Gigabit over my home network. 120MBytes/s 991 MBits/s as proven below
output from FileZilla log 13/3/2012
File transfer successful, transferred 2.6 GB in 22 seconds
File transfer successful, transferred 1.2 GB in 10 seconds
I am not immediately planning to use OMV as storage for mythtv recordings but no reason why it could not be