[mythtv-users] Media server? Unraid vs Freenas

[Jim Abernathy]

On 3/8/20 8:13 PM, Ian Evans wrote:
> For those of you storing your video collections on a media server, are 
> you using Unraid, Freenas or something else? And why that choice?
>
My current production mythtv backend has a boot drive and 4-2TB drives 
setup as 2-2TB Mirrors. Since I'm using Ubuntu Server 18.04 I opted for 
the mdadm RAID that is internal to Ubuntu.  It works great and is 
relatively easy to manage. I have lost 1 drive at a time several times 
in the last 2 years and the replacement has been easy. I get an email 
when I lost the drive and I shutdown, replace the drive, and reboot then 
2 commands later the new drive is being recovered.

Having used FreeNAS in the past, I feel that it adds a level of 
complexity that I don't need. I setup a NFS and SAMBA share on the 
Ubuntu server so I still can use it as a NAS for my home.

Jim A