You're talking about not having enough RAM.I have 8Gb of ECC/NonParity ram in the thing. My current server isn't RAID'd at all, but it just stores media, nothing that couldn't be easily replaced. I'm also debating switchign to XBMC from plex anyway, so that may not matter, but whatever. I don't think the N40 has the guts to transcode HD video, either. Probably dumb to have two boxes, but I have the hardware, so why not. Like I think I said, I have another dedicated Arch box acting as a server, doing plex and all that kinda fun crud. Posted by holgate at 7:19 AM on December 4, 2014 There are Plex and MiniDLNA plugins, but installing custom stuff is trickier than a standard server build. I like FreeNAS, because it's a mature implementation of ZFS with a fairly intuitive GUI, but its strengths are more as a pure storage server (backups and network shares) than a Swiss Army NAS. ZFS doesn't require massive CPU power as long as you're not doing, but it does eat RAM: the rule of thumb is 1GB RAM per 1TB of storage, and though I don't know whether it's circulated as folk wisdom, that feels about right to me. (Less of an issue in the well-cooled HP microserver chassis than a smaller box like a Synology, but still worth considering.)
Having NOT-ALIKE drives becomes a bit problematic for any kind of next-gen RAID-ish stuff if some of them have firmware that's not really designed for NAS-like activity and builds that aren't suited for 24/7 operation. What do you want to do with it? What kind of server software would you want running? Streaming media, backup processes, other stuff?
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