Mini sever project then main nas not working .

[Zygizz]

I want to thank you guys for previous forum topic for advices ( for picking right parts for my budget freenas ) but I am running some issues, country there i life, thunderstorm kinda often thing in summer ( and you all know thunder and electronics have a bit of bad relationship i don't want to burn my new freenas nas server ) where was one time then thunder fried all electronic in summer huose .

 

So then am going to travel ( or be far way from home ) and think good solution will be raspberry pi 3 using openmediavault and plugin plex and bitsync and i have some forgotten 2.0 usb hdd and going to get some use of it.

 

So i want to ask you good people of forum its good idea or not ? 

On that quality raspberry pi 3 can stream videos ?  as i read in forums pi cant trascode video or its false  ?

 

It would great if you guys give me feedback or suguest maybe another idea for this situation.

 

Thanks in advance !

[NinjaJc01]

Just now, Zygizz said:

 

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I want to thank you guys for previous forum topic for advices ( for picking right parts for my budget freenas ) but I am running some issues, country there i life, thunderstorm kinda often thing in summer ( and you all know thunder and electronics have a bit of bad relationship i don't want to burn my new freenas nas server ) where was one time then thunder fried all electronic in summer huose .

 

So then am going to travel ( or be far way from home ) and think good solution will be raspberry pi 3 using openmediavault and plugin plex and bitsync and i have some forgotten 2.0 usb hdd and going to get some use of it.

 

So i want to ask you good people of forum its good idea or not ? 

On that quality raspberry pi 3 can stream videos ?  as i read in forums pi cant trascode video or its false  ?

 

It would great if you guys give me feedback or suguest maybe another idea for this situation.

 

Thanks in advance !

 

 

It can transcode video, but it might not be a great or smooth experience. Why no surge protect?

[AverageHardware]

You could find a nice surge protector/UPS.

[Zygizz]

Just now, AverageHardware said:

You could find a nice surge protector/UPS.

 

Just now, NinjaJc01 said:

It can transcode video, but it might not be a great or smooth experience. Why no surge protect?

originally i had three ups one was in my summer huose connect too my pc but was taken down  not working now but in my huose i have in rack two ups one for my gaiming rig another for my future nas and my consoles

[NinjaJc01]

Just now, Zygizz said:

 

originally i had three ups one was in my summer huose connect too my pc but was taken down  not working now but in my huose i have in rack two ups one for my gaiming rig another for my future nas and my consoles

But why aren't you using a surge protector, or why weren't you? You don't need a UPS for games consoles. If you can afford a UPS, buy a surge protector to protect your stuff.

[Zygizz]

2 minutes ago, NinjaJc01 said:

But why aren't you using a surge protector, or why weren't you? You don't need a UPS for games consoles. If you can afford a UPS, buy a surge protector to protect your stuff.

Ups from my work am planing for instaling surge protector in my huose i was talking with brother about that. Its just temporarily solution

[NinjaJc01]

Just now, Zygizz said:

Ups from my work am planing for instaling surge protector in my huose i was talking with brother about that. Its just temporarily solution

You shouldn't really run a FreeNAS server on a raspi3.

[Zygizz]

Just now, NinjaJc01 said:

You shouldn't really run a FreeNAS server on a raspi3.

I was saying my main sever was freenas  im thinking of runing openmediavault

 

[NinjaJc01]

Just now, Zygizz said:

I was saying my main sever was freenas  im thinking of runing openmediavault

 

Why can't you stream it from FreeNAS? Or at least run freeNAS in a VM and openmediavault in a VM?

[Zygizz]

yeah of course am streaming from freenas server and using bittorrensync and plex sever too but you know I don't want too leave my main server running then it can be thunderstorm in city unexpectedly 

[Zygizz]

3 minutes ago, NinjaJc01 said:

Why can't you stream it from FreeNAS? Or at least run freeNAS in a VM and openmediavault in a VM?

yeah of course am streaming from freenas server and using bittorrensync and plex sever too but you know I don't want too leave my main server running then it can be thunderstorm in city unexpectedly 

[NinjaJc01]

Just now, Zygizz said:

yeah of course am streaming from freenas server and using bittorrensync and plex sever too but you know I don't want too leave my main server running then it can be thunderstorm in city unexpectedly 

USE A SURGE PROTECTOR. That will protect it from lightning. There's no point in running a raspberry pi as well.

[Zygizz]

1 minute ago, NinjaJc01 said:

USE A SURGE PROTECTOR. That will protect it from lightning. There's no point in running a raspberry pi as well.

Of course will use them but for now i dont have them  

[NinjaJc01]

Just now, Zygizz said:

Of course will use them but for now i dont have them  

Then don't use a raspberry pi if you only need it for a couple of months.

[Zygizz]

3 minutes ago, NinjaJc01 said:

Then don't use a raspberry pi if you only need it for a couple of months.

Yeah good point but in my mind its going to be fun project  am just wondering its practical

[NinjaJc01]

Just now, Zygizz said:

Yeah good point but in my mind its going to be fun project  

Then don't use a RasPi, try a nice older desktop, as a backup measure. You can always buy a rackmount case if it has a standard motherboard.

[Zygizz]

1 minute ago, NinjaJc01 said:

Then don't use a RasPi, try a nice older desktop, as a backup measure. You can always buy a rackmount case if it has a standard motherboard.

oh.. i didnt think about that  but for price Raspi going to be cheaper

[NinjaJc01]

1 minute ago, Zygizz said:

oh.. i didnt think about that  

It would likely be a much nicer streaming experience as well. Maybe an LGA 1155 or 1366 based system, as those are getting cheaper, and you can do some virtualization on them later on.

[Zygizz]

7 minutes ago, NinjaJc01 said:

It would likely be a much nicer streaming experience as well. Maybe an LGA 1155 or 1366 based system, as those are getting cheaper, and you can do some virtualization on them later on.

Yeah... but for system like that you going to pay for used that around 130 ? for lga 1155 used if i right ( dont really know used market well ) . I dont think i going to used virtualization because i didnt find any benefit for that 

[NinjaJc01]

1 minute ago, Zygizz said:

Yeah... but for system like that you going to pay for used that around 130 ? for lga 1155 used if i right ( dont really know used market well ) . I dont think i going to used virtualization because i didnt find any benefit for that 

Virtualization is a very good way to learn your way around an OS. I'm not in the US, so I have no clue about prices.

[Zygizz]

Am not living in us too   am in europe lithuania

[NinjaJc01]

Just now, Zygizz said:

Am not living in us too   am in europe lithuania

I've heard hardware is quite expensive away from the main sort of block of Europe (Germany, France, Spain etc). I'm in the UK, so used hardware is OK I guess.

[Zygizz]

Just now, NinjaJc01 said:

I've heard hardware is quite expensive away from the main sort of block of Europe (Germany, France, Spain etc). I'm in the UK, so used hardware is OK I guess.

In my country is hard to find any sort of used hardware and if you find something it mostly overpriced 

[ssfdre38]

If you are going to use plex and stream to your pi3, you can as the server side (plex hosted computer) will transcode the video for you and stream it to your pi3 over the web to a browser so you can watch it. I do this with a windows server 2016 and i just use my browser to watch all my stuff on other computers and my server will transcode everything that i watch and stream it to me. A pi can do it but just so you know you are also limited by the connections that is used so if you go to a hotel, they tend to throttle their network to less the 1Mbps.