Plex isn t integrated into freenas but i can understand that perspective.
Freenas hardware reddit.
Upgrading freenas hardware to m2.
Drkk s guide to basic configeration of a new freenas server.
If theres a hardware software failure i m thinking that a off prem cloud style backup service would be best.
Hardware requirements and recommendations freenas is a free and open source network attached storage nas software based on freebsd.
Do not use hardware raid under zfs unless you absolutely positively 100 know what you are doing.
Hardware acceleration for plex.
A large amount of freenas users utilize plex esp in the early days.
Supermicro x11ssm is the defacto homelab board.
And almost certainly not then either you are asking this question of random people on reddit.
While freenas will install and boot on nearly any 64 bit x86 pc or virtual machine selecting the correct hardware is highly important to allowing freenas to do what it does best.
I have never successfully used hardware offloading on network cards whether they were onboard virtual or a new intel card i bought a few months back.
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I don t have experience with this option in freenas but i definitely have some experience with an identical option in pfsense.
Depending on how much transcoding you plan on doing you could go from i3 6100t up to a e3 1285 v6.
32gb of ecc ram 8gb is the minimum regardless of storage space however its generally recommended to have 1gb of ram per tb of space.
I m planning on upgrading my current freenas server.
2 points 4 months ago.
Its basicallyt moving the cpu hdd raid card sfp card to a new motherboard.
Just get everything on ebay.
Off of the top of my head.
Now i have hit something that is just making me reconsider the whole damn thing.
Drkk s will guide you through the basics of setting up a freenas server.
From hardware testing to system reporting to scheduling those all important scrubs and s m a r t.
First freenas build hardware recommendation needed.
As far as hardware for your freenas.
You do not absolutely positively 100 know what you are doing.
Always end up catching checksum errors with either udp or tcp.
I run a i3 6100t in my freenas server and a e3 1285 v6 in my emby server.
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I ll be using freenas.
This is what drives the misconception that it s better to have freenas plex imo.