Home NAS/Plex Server

[spellmanuk]

i wanted to build a NAS out of an old pre built that i have li=ying about in my house and use freenas on it and run a plex server since its currently running of my gaming pc and can affect my internet when playing online games unfortunately both the old pre builts i own both use AMD cpu  and to my knowledge  free nas doesnt work on that what is a cheap pre build (2nd hand not new) that is cheap and has space for 2 drives if possible also can you list me prices in £ please not $ also budget £250 max

[Jarsky]

You can use AMD CPU's. FreeNAS runs on the FreeBSD kernel which supports x86 and x86_64 processors.

[spellmanuk]

9 minutes ago, Jarsky said:

You can use AMD CPU's. FreeNAS runs on the FreeBSD kernel which supports x86 and x86_64 processors.

hmmm okay maybe im getting it confused with something else then

[bobhays]

6 hours ago, peej said:

hmmm okay maybe im getting it confused with something else then

No you're not. AMD cpu's can work but the FreeNAS community highly recommends you stick with intel because of better support. Some of the people on the FreeNAS forum don't bother helping people who don't follow the minimum of an intel cpu and 8gb ECC RAM.

[Scheer]

You may want to take a look at Xpenology, its a hacked version of Synology Diskstation. The install is a bit more difficult than FreeNAS, but actually using and configuring it is much easier, plus it has an "app" for running a Plex server.

[spellmanuk]

4 minutes ago, Scheer said:

You may want to take a look at Xpenology, its a hacked version of Synology Diskstation. The install is a bit more difficult than FreeNAS, but actually using and configuring it is much easier, plus it has an "app" for running a Plex server.

Runs on AMD systems? 

[Mikensan]

You can run FreeNAS on any hardware you want, there's just strong recommendations that affect performance and data integrity. Or you could just put M$ Windows Server on it.

[Scheer]

2 hours ago, peej said:

Runs on AMD systems? 

I'm not sure if it is standard, but there are builds that support AMD. This is an old one, but states that it will work: http://xpenology.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1028

[spellmanuk]

21 minutes ago, Scheer said:

I'm not sure if it is standard, but there are builds that support AMD. This is an old one, but states that it will work: http://xpenology.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1028

Great cheers saves me buying a new bit of kit