EddWills95
New member
Hey all,
Haven't been on here in a while, been cracking on with uni.
Just a question about building a NAS from an old Q8300 Quad Core. I might need to grab some more RAM for it - i'm sure I can find some DDR2 pretty cheap. -- Not as fancy as TTL's Monster
We've got an old Acer PC sitting around at home essentially doing nothing, and we're about to move house, so i'd figured i'd try and actually do something constructive for the new house by attempting to put all the media crap my family seems to gather over the years into one place that can be accessed at any time.
I've been looking into something like FreeNAS with Plex as a way of doing this but I thought i'd get a second opinion.
I essentially need it to be able to:
- Stream Movies and Shows to TVs (I've got a few raspberry pi's so can set up a client on there...this being if the 'smart' tv can't find the server)
With this I figured plex would be a good idea?
- Stream Music to the SONOS system my mum got over christmas.
- Possibly hold some more bits and pieces: some sort of time machine thing - i have no idea how locked down this is - as its only a matter of time before my brother or sister actually manage to break theirs.
I'm very new to the whole NAS setup and would love any information to point me in the right direction.
I realise there are loads of guides out there, but i wanted to make sure i was going in the right direction with this stuff.
Cheers.
Haven't been on here in a while, been cracking on with uni.
Just a question about building a NAS from an old Q8300 Quad Core. I might need to grab some more RAM for it - i'm sure I can find some DDR2 pretty cheap. -- Not as fancy as TTL's Monster

We've got an old Acer PC sitting around at home essentially doing nothing, and we're about to move house, so i'd figured i'd try and actually do something constructive for the new house by attempting to put all the media crap my family seems to gather over the years into one place that can be accessed at any time.
I've been looking into something like FreeNAS with Plex as a way of doing this but I thought i'd get a second opinion.
I essentially need it to be able to:
- Stream Movies and Shows to TVs (I've got a few raspberry pi's so can set up a client on there...this being if the 'smart' tv can't find the server)
With this I figured plex would be a good idea?
- Stream Music to the SONOS system my mum got over christmas.
- Possibly hold some more bits and pieces: some sort of time machine thing - i have no idea how locked down this is - as its only a matter of time before my brother or sister actually manage to break theirs.
I'm very new to the whole NAS setup and would love any information to point me in the right direction.
I realise there are loads of guides out there, but i wanted to make sure i was going in the right direction with this stuff.
Cheers.