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Thank you for your answer. I think I'll go with Freenas. If I'm right this does not require raid controller at all? Is this true that it requires 1GB of RAM per TB of storage? My P5Q-Pro motherboard with my intel Q6600 will do the job for Plex? The thing is that the P5Q only supports 16GB of RAM. Thanks for your help.

Hello, Do you know blitzortung.org ? http://en.blitzortung.org/live_lightning_maps.php It is a community-based project that propose realtime maps of lightning over the world. It consists of a network of VLF detectors which are listening to strikes. When it detects something a packet (signal wave, time and position) is sent to computing servers which determine the origin of the electromagnetic source by computing heperbolic curves based of the different signals sent by at least 11 detectors. This network is well developped in Europe but not so much in America (north and south ). I thought that some members are maybe weather/electronic enthousiasts that could be interested in that project. Enjoy!

Hi there, I have been following the LTT channel for while now but never took a tour on the forums. Now that I plan to replace/upgrade my file storage at home I think this is a good time to join the board I want to replace the way I store all my files. Currently I have a synology NAS for my "sensitive" data and my media are stored on several external HDD which I connect to my Linux DVB-S2 receiver. Not very efficient! I was hopping that the community could help me to select the best hardware I'll need. Here are a few thoughts: - I want the case to be rack mount, if possible with hot swap bays because it looks badass but it has to stay on the budget. - The same machine will be use to store my "critical" data and as Plex Media Server - My critical data aren't big files: it is pdf, text documents, spread sheets, some photos. For now it is only 300GB and it represents 12 years of work. For that part I thought that two 1TB drives mounted in RAID1 would be a great idea. Those data are also backed up in a remote location. - For my media I thought about four 4TB drives mounted in RAID10, not really sure about that... - Possibility to extend the storage capacity in the future. Could you give some tips about the hardware I should buy? I think that 500€, yes I'm European, should be the max budget (storage not included). What I currently have at home: nothing too good: - Asus P5Q-Pro - Intel Q6600 - Some DDR2 memory! - Some SSDs that I'll use for the os (Freenas or unraid?) Yeah, haven't followed the technology for some years now Well, I think this is it. Thank you for considering this and sorry for the eventual bad writing in English