Windows 10 or FreeNAS for Plex and File Storage

[Bearded_Ed]

Heya,

 

I've recently dived head first into building a home server. I initially purchased a full 2U 12bay storage server for very, very cheap (£40) with an X58 Xeon and 24GB RAM.  Which I am going to gut and put into the HP Z400 I just got for peanuts (£30) as this chassis still allows me to get 4 HDDs in there and is drastically quieter. 

 

My question is Win10... or FreeNAS?

 

It'll be on near enough 24/7 for Plex and my video footage.  I'll probably not be working directly from it but it'd be nice if I could. (Video editing in Premiere Pro - HD DSLR and 4K Mobile footage).

 

What would you guys recommend? 

 

[MasonBitByte]

FreeNAS. It is built around NAS for all different use cases and windows 10 is not a server OS. Windows server 2015, however is for that use but is hella expensive. 

[Bearded_Ed]

4 hours ago, MaseeGames said:

FreeNAS. It is built around NAS for all different use cases and windows 10 is not a server OS. Windows server 2015, however is for that use but is hella expensive. 

OK.  So my question is - could I add drives to a FreeNAS pool that already have data on them? 

 

EDIT:  K - Answered my own question - no absolutely not.   Damn gonna need to get some new drives.