i have an Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 motherboard and an AMD FX-6300 (i will be getting 32GB of ECC RAM at some point, but in the meantime, i'll be using 8GB of my main system's 16GB of non-ECC RAM, just to get things up & running). i am going to use it for a ZFS NAS server as a back-end for XBMC to serve up my DVD/Bluray collection that i've ripped and encoded into MKV files and my vast music collection, and will also probably serve as a central backup location anytime i need to wipe/reformat a machine, or make a safe copy of someone's data before working on their system.
for now, i have 5x Samsung EcoGreen F4 ST2000DL004 2TB hard drives for the data pool, which i will be running off the on-board SATA ports. at some point i will likely get an HBA to expand the storage when i need more. i'd like to be able to logically join the 2 separate hard drive pools into one larger pool when more hard drives are added, instead of having to have 2 separate mount points to have to point to in XBMC....i want it all to show up as one large, seamless drive to any connected client software.
if at all possible, i'd also like to be able to run Handbrake on it as well so i can free up my main system for gaming & whatnot.
is there any sort of setup that will let me do both the ZFS NAS setup & run Handbrake as well?
for now, i have 5x Samsung EcoGreen F4 ST2000DL004 2TB hard drives for the data pool, which i will be running off the on-board SATA ports. at some point i will likely get an HBA to expand the storage when i need more. i'd like to be able to logically join the 2 separate hard drive pools into one larger pool when more hard drives are added, instead of having to have 2 separate mount points to have to point to in XBMC....i want it all to show up as one large, seamless drive to any connected client software.
if at all possible, i'd also like to be able to run Handbrake on it as well so i can free up my main system for gaming & whatnot.
is there any sort of setup that will let me do both the ZFS NAS setup & run Handbrake as well?