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So unRaid and WHS both can, but not FreeNAS? What's it missing?
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Geeba
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2009-10-30, 16:54
(This post was last modified: 2009-10-30, 16:59 by Geeba.)
Nope - I squiz read it a bit quick... WHS doesnt like RAID - You can hook up an external drive and configure that as a backup for the server as well as coping it across multiple disks... it will pool your drives as well so you wont have the multiple folder problem for your movies....
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For those of you running WHS for your media server, can you tell me what kind of speeds you get over your network, and if WHS is capable of streaming a 40GB bluray rip? I only used WHS for machine backups before, and its been about 6 months since I've used it.
I'm currently using Freenas as my media server, but I'm looking at getting WHS setup again as an all-in-one setup for media serving as well as backups of my machines.
Thanks.
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I use an HP Mediasmart WHS machine with great success on XBMC. It's connected through a simple gigabit router to my little Zotac-based HTPC (running Ubuntu), and it has no problem playing back high-bitrate BluRay rips.
It showed up easily as a network share, and pointing XBMC at it was probably the easiest part of setting up my XBMC installation.
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I've been using freenas for years with zero problems and fantastic throughput.
Reading this, I was wondering if anyone uses freenas (or any tftp server) to boot xbmc on a system without any disks?
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Just for completeness, OpenFiler is very FreeNAS-like but with more bells and whistles.