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Ready4Dis, thanks. This is sort of why I liked nas4free up to this point, it is pretty lightweight and upgrading / backups are easy. I completely agree with the idea of keeping the host OS separate from the services provided by VMs / containers for exactly the reasons you mentioned. I guess...

I am planning to migrate my small home VM server from ESXi to Proxmox. The main objectives are to add a Windows VM with QuickSync to the server to try out BlueIris and use the limited amount of RAM on this system more effectively. In general many of the services on VMs now could probably...

SM support got back to me and thinks the board is bad... ugh. I will probably abandon getting the E3-1245 v2 back up and get a off-lease 4th or 6th generation Optiplex or Thinkcentre SFF instead, rather than rolling the dice with another used LGA1155 server MB. I just need another system to...

Thanks for the info and perspective. I contacted SM support and they were able to look up the S/N and confirmed the board was shipped with BIOS 2.0b, which should support IB CPUs. I removed the board from the chassis, removed the coin battery for a few days, reseated the CPU, and still no...

I could use some help diagnosing problems with POST and IPMI on a x9scm-F I got off of Ebay recently. CPU is E3-1245v2, RAM is Crucial DDR3 ECC 8 gb, and PSU is Seasonic S12ii 430w. Basically, after connecting the 24 pin ATX power + 8 pin +12V power, the standby light (LE3 in the MB manual)...

Yes, I should have clarified the whole problem and plan. Both the first and second floors have cat5e drops at about the same location, roughly on top of one another. Both are in closets. Each IP camera is only about 20-30 feet from the Lite (in the x-y plane) and perhaps 12 feet in the z...

Can I ask if you noticed any differences in connectivity for 2.4 Ghz devices at a distance from the AP? We just moved and my UAP-AC-LITE is having trouble with IP cameras and our doorbell that are at the periphery of the house. Old house was new construction, 2000 sq ft, three stories, approx...

I think this is the same as option #2 - make a new array with two, single drive vdevs (ie no redundancy), copy data over, then break down the old array and move the drives to the new one to re-establish redundancy as mirror vdevs. I am leaning towards option 1 and perhaps copying data around...

So, it sounds like testing the drives is critical but beyond that creating a balanced vs unbalanced striped mirror is not that important. Hmm, this seems "fraud-y" to me so no thanks. Plus I need the new drives to expand the pool size!

Well, that's true. I guess I thought if a predisposition to failure occurred in this batch of drives or during shipping, both new drives would be equally prone to failure. So no good reason to go through the process of strategy #2?

I currently have two HGST Deskstar NAS 4 tb drives configured as a single vdev (ZFS mirror) in nas4free. The drives are ~2.5 years old and have no S.M.A.R.T errors and all scrubs have been clean. The pool is at ~90% capacity and I want to add another two HGST Desktar NAS 4 tb drives to enlarge...

If your TV supports HDMI-CEC, you can use your TV remote to control the raspberry pi. I use my Panasonic Plasma TV remote to move left, right, up, down, etc on Kodi. As far as the streaming services, I am not sure if any of them will allow you to use a raspberry pi and Kodi due to DRM. Some...

As already mentioned a significant amount of focus was on Google Assistant and it's new (?) features. Did they specifically state which existing devices Google Assistant would be compatible with? Does it require specific hardware, found only in the Pixels / Home, or will it be "back-portable"...

In almost all cases, the key to add a desktop OS to the NAS is support of virtualization by both the CPU and the motherboard. I am not familiar with AMD at all to know whether this APU and board support AMD-V. For this option to work best, you will probably also need another PCIe GPU to pass...

OP, I was in a very similar situation as you a few years ago - needed a NAS for basic home needs, mostly backup for various PCs and Macs, central and larger storage for TV recordings and other streamable media, etc. Elected to build my own rather than go with a Synology. TBH in retrospect, I'd...

Just FYI, I received a promotional email from NE today that contained a coupon code for $20 (128gb), $25 (256gb), or $30 (512gb) off of these drives, for final prices of $70, $105, and $190, respectively. Promotion is valid from 09/07 to 09/13, and tied to your email address.

If you are looking for something clean, and your TV supports HDMI-CEC, you could get this adapter and use your TV remote to control the HTPC. HDMI-CEC functionality is built into the raspberry pi's and I use my Panasonic Plasma TV remote to control Kodi on one.

I just ordered this one: LaView Panda LV-PC902F2-W HD 1080P 2MP Day/Night w/PIR Detection, Motion, Built-in Micro SD Slot Wireless or PoE IP Camera-Newegg.com. It is on sale at $79.99 from NE's typical $100 price. It is a rebadge of the Hikvision DS-2CD2432F-IW here...

My Nexus 5 battery started dying so I recently got a Lumia 640 as a stop-gap until the next line of Nexi are announced. It was a $30 AT&T GoPhone (prepaid). I flashed a T-mobile ROM and then upgraded to W10 (10586). Overall Windows Mobile 10 is reasonably good and I think better than...

FWIW, I have a HDHR Connect and a Winegard FL-55YR and the pair work great with MythTV to record OTA. I can't easily install an outdoor antenna, but I'm in an area with strong OTA signals. The Winegard is lying flat and haphazardly aimed on a piece of furniture on the 3rd floor (~35 feet off...

Intel Celeron G1820 CPU. Pre-Haswell refresh so can be used to update older BIOS's for the Haswell refreshed ones. Worked perfectly fine in my N4F fileserver. Includes the original box and the heatsink with 4-pin fan. Thanks for looking!

Dell OEM 1395 Wireless mini PCIe network card. Pulled from my Vostro laptop and should work in any device with a compatible slot. Good for up to 54 mbps of two-antenna 802.11g goodness! Thanks for looking!

Bump for relisting at lower price.

I have booted live arch USBs from time to time. Is there something in particular you are wondering about? Here's some hardware: root@archiso ~ # dmesg | grep Duo [ 0.059999] smpboot: CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8100 @ 2.10GHz (fam: 06, model: 17, stepping: 06) root@archiso ~ # dmesg |...

Dell Vostro 1400 14.1" Core 2 Duo Laptop / 2.1 GHz / Intel 802.11n / 320 GB HDD My daily driver laptop for many years. It's in pretty good shape. I removed the original Dell wlan card and replaced it with an Intel 5300 802.11n card (3x3) capable of up to 450 mbps in either the 2.4 Ghz or 5...

:) point taken! The noise from these drives is probably seek noise, although it's not the higher pitched, intermittent, "clicking" that I'm used to from the heads moving around. It's more like an almost white noise that is just irregular enough (in volume and pitch) to be annoying. There's...

Very interesting, thanks all for the perspectives. In the F4/F5, from what I can see, the entire front door, side panels, and vent covers are lined with foam. I could try to achieve the same in the P180 using adhesive noise dampening material like this stuff. The HDD caddy in the R5 can...

I have an Antec P180b from ~2008 that has two HGST 4 tb NAS drives in a mirror in the bottom hard drive position. These drives are 7200 rpm and I believe use five, 800 gb platters, and are loud. I can hear a "rustling" of the platters at about 4 feet with the case's front door closed, until...

I have a fraction of the experience of other posters in this thread, but I faced a similar question when building my NAS. I compared Nas4Free vs FreeNAS using disk images and thought both performed similarly. The WebGUI was much faster with N4F. The FN forums are much more populated and in...

Thanks for putting this guide together, it's a great resource. Quick question, when passing a LVM logical volume to Qemu, how do you handle the permissions for the LV if qemu-system is invoked by a regular user and not root? In your example you are using sudo - without it, I think qemu-system...

The server in my sig (with a Celeron G1820 and 16 gb ECC) can transfer 10gb media files over NFS or SMB at ~105 MB/s and not break 25% (NFS) or 10% (SMB) CPU usage. Not quite saturating but reasonably close. This is a $43 CPU, but the rest of the system cost a lot more. I kill-a-watt'd it...

I'm not sure if that hardware is capable of booting a USB drive. I would put a spare HDD in your desktop, boot a Linux live USB, install the OS to the spare HDD, and enable ssh server. Then, take the HDD out and put it in to the ex470 and boot and see if you can ssh into it from a different...

Use CPNJEPP for the login password on the very first page. See here for more info (source of the deal).

Saw this on SD today: New 30% off sale at Lenovo on Thinkpads Use code CPNJEPP. Expires 04/08/2015.

I just got a T450s through lenovo. First new laptop since 2007. I like it so far but honestly I haven't used it much yet, it's mostly for work travel. Very similar to your proposed specs except I got the touch screen, Win7 pro instead of 8.1, and only 8gb ram. In retrospect the touch screen...

I used a Silverstone ML03b, the older mATX version of the ITX case in Syran's build, as an HTPC for a while. The physical specs of the Lian-Li PC-C37B are very comparable to the ML03b. I was able to get one 3.5" and two 2.5" HDs in the ML03b, but it wasn't silent - the HDs are directly...

My apologies... yes, I sold it on the 28th - will make it more clear next time :p

Yup, the RPi can decode MPEG-2 in hardware, you just need a MPEG-2 license key (available here for a few $$). Where the RPi falls short is in the fluidity of navigating menus in XBMC, which is not specific to mythtv. If I have one "peeve" about MythTV, it's the general avoidance of the ARM...

Nice to see high praise for MythTV on here. I have also used it for ~10 years, first on Ubuntu and then on Arch. Right now our frontend is a RPi with Openelec. It was honestly a stop-gap while I thought about rebuilding a dedicated frontend, but the RPi is tiny and the HDMI-CEC feature was...

Replaced my 3220 with a Xeon 1245 in my daily driver desktop to run some VMs using qemu. Never been overclocked and removed with the utmost in care. Thanks for looking. Intel Core i3 3220 3.3 GHz Dual-Core (CM8063701137502) CPU SR0RG 1155 Edit: Relisted with lower price.