Hardware for Media Server

[webrusik]

Hello! I apologize for my English, I use Google translator, and myself from Russia. I'll get down to business. I want to collect nas for the house.

Tasks:
1. Download movies by torrent
2. Transfer 4K HDR video over a home network, in particular to a smart LG TV.

Actually, from all this I care about the choice of iron on the second question? I ask for help)

[webrusik]

Forgot to add. Which bundle to choose. Motherboard mini-itx + processor

[Electronics Wizardy]

How much do you want to spend? 

 

How much storage space do you need?

 

How much experience do you have with storage, and network and non windows oses?

[webrusik]

Motherboard + processor about $ 200

Hard drives 2 + 2 tb WD Red

There is no great experience, so I want to use freenas or nas4free. I'll be able to figure out how to build a network and collect the raid array

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, webrusik said:

Motherboard + processor about $ 200

Hard drives 2 + 2 tb WD Red

There is no great experience, so I want to use freenas or nas4free. 

 

Do you have those drives or do you plan to get them?

 

Id go freeNAS, easier to use in my experience and more features.

 

Id look at a board like this https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157728 and put 8gb of ram in.

 

More than enough cpu here, cheap, low power.

[webrusik]

Hard drives are already there. And what can you say about the transfer of 4k hdr video over the local network to the TV?

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, webrusik said:

Hard drives are already there. And what can you say about the transfer of 4k hdr video over the local network to the TV?

It takes very little cpu power to play a video, its just copying files. If you want to transcode you need a much faster system. If the tv is just connected to a fileshare on the nas it will work fine.

[webrusik]

If the TV is connected to nas ethernet 100 mbit - will it be normal?

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, webrusik said:

If the TV is connected to nas ethernet 100 mbit - will it be normal?

How is it connected? what protocol?

 

What bitrate is the video. You probably should be running gig ethernet everywhere by now.

[webrusik]

Sorry, I probably do not write clearly. Here's the picture. 4k in that case will work?

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, webrusik said:

Sorry, I probably do not write clearly. Here's the picture. 4k in that case will work?

 

No what protocol? CIFS? NFS? How is the tv talking to the nas over the network.

 

ALso 100mbit will be slow....

[webrusik]

DLNA Protocol. I want to use a Plex media server

[Electronics Wizardy]

4 minutes ago, webrusik said:

DLNA Protocol. I want to use a Plex media server

Then it will work fine. 

[webrusik]

2 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Then it will work fine. 

Thank you so much for the help and time you gave me!