I don't have a lot of free time so i'm hoping some of you in the storage would can give me a few suggestions. Right now I have a custom built PC running a AMD Athlon X2 6000+ at 3 GHz, 1 GB of RAM, and 4x WD 3 TB Red's on a Highpoint RocketRaid 2320 in one RAID-5 volume. I've been running Windows Server 2003 on it for probably about eight years now. I convert the array to a dynamic disk and then use GPT.
Anyway I'm starting to have issues with the OS since and before I spend the time and another license on a Windows OS, I figured why not just try a free solution out there.
All I need is to be able to browse the file shares on the LAN from Windows, Linux (Ubuntu), Roku 2 and a WD TV Play media device. Both the media devices use DNLA so i've been using Serviio for those needs. I only want one user account for me, and another general account for everyone else to view.
I've looked briefly at FreeNAS... but I see there are a few other options out there. What do you guys think is best for me? Keep in mind I don't have any money to upgrade my hardware at this time.
Thanks in advance!
Anyway I'm starting to have issues with the OS since and before I spend the time and another license on a Windows OS, I figured why not just try a free solution out there.
All I need is to be able to browse the file shares on the LAN from Windows, Linux (Ubuntu), Roku 2 and a WD TV Play media device. Both the media devices use DNLA so i've been using Serviio for those needs. I only want one user account for me, and another general account for everyone else to view.
I've looked briefly at FreeNAS... but I see there are a few other options out there. What do you guys think is best for me? Keep in mind I don't have any money to upgrade my hardware at this time.
Thanks in advance!