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This is probably a really stupid question, but for what kinds of applications or scenarios are people using FreeNAS? I'm interested in hearing about regular use
by TheAceOfHearts 10y ago
This is probably a really stupid question, but for what kinds of applications or scenarios are people using FreeNAS? I'm interested in hearing about regular users, not business or enterprises.
Upon seeing FreeNAS Mini, I have to say that I'm really interested. I've become increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of keeping all of my data "in the cloud". Being able to keep a local version of all my media would help give me peace of mind.
Is maintaining your own "personal cloud", if you will, a reasonable use-case for this? What are the proper expectations from a maintenance perspective? i.e. How often should I expect things to break or require tuning / fixing?
- zippergz 10y agoI use FreeBSD+ZFS rather than FreeNAS, but it's the same idea. I store all of my photos and videos, all of my music, and all of my movies. The music and movies are served via Plex and Sonos to various parts of the house, and I use Lightroom to browse the photos. This is not the only copy of any of this stuff, though. The photos get synced to S3 and backed up on a second local hard drive. All of the movies I have are rips of DVDs and Blu-Rays I still own, and can use if needed. And my music is all in Apple Music/iTunes Match (and on my computer, backed up via both Time Machine and Crashplan). So, I'm using the server really as convenient local storage for stuff, not as an alternative to the cloud.
- js2 10y agoHow are you accessing the photos? NFS? SMB? Is the performance decent?