From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 21 16:52:20 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9647FF70 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:52:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nick.kyky@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 205678FC12 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:52:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bk0-f54.google.com with SMTP id je9so2498566bkc.13 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:52:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=ZeSlamvFJN2ON673K8C3ZTzk3PIkoHvOxyZCL+LYq4g=; b=mC3BhWLuU3AoVJjSA04pClsvR0il0+SPVnL1lGxxf73J8KlG2nxC3P3JRQaZhW9+Bj nrRsdxMoY608qn8Lee13uSl3DdlmqWN8nKEs+mZDrFfch6MHv2GiN6RgvhEzZB4nxOap rRDRL8hdiX50Np7zw3pX34FPhVfWVsICJOcbMG09aO68k6mk1QgfcBpD4CGSPgge8KdW 1UeLmlqBbBvGkAAv/8qMfcQW+wrwWMjvUBmcMv+kjNiC7IraiG9Mow+EbzLioP0AXR3V dzZBuK1uZWNhFcJpmNCqBHcNuCh7pR6Qsj4a+bWVTRVyO1TptRPe2ErnkzrLqoxxJ6WA 8Pgw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.7.78 with SMTP id c14mr2767109bkc.100.1353516732555; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:52:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.21.75 with HTTP; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:52:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:52:12 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Home "Server" From: Nicholas MIller To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:52:20 -0000 Hi all, I am looking to re purpose an old system for use as a home server. My intentions for the server are as follows: Central backup of other systems. Storage for Media files(movies/music) Occasionally transcoding DVDs/blurays As well as being able to access the backed up files(at least part of them) over http(s). My question(s) regard storage. Depending on which case I end up using or if i purchase a new one, will have access to either 4(four) or 6(six) hard drive bays. The only things I really *need* redundancy for would be the centralized backups. Which has me leaning towards zfs. However since I'll probably want to use some of the space from the drives in that pool, but won't need redundancy I'm not quite sure how to proceed. I'm sorry if any of this message is unclear. Thanks for any assistence Nick