A few months ago I purchased a HP Microserver because it had become necessary to improve my storage arrangements at home. Before then I had stored things, well actually everything, on a ReadyNAS Duo that had a been running on a pair of 500GB that mirrored each other for redundancy. This was not an ideal situation and because I was running out of space I had considered removing the mirror.
Switch to something like the HP Microserver seemed ideal because:
- I could run whatever I wanted on it because it was effectively a PC in its own right.
- I would have 8TB of storage which was a vast improvement over the ReadyNAS.
- 4 drives would give me improved redundancy and there would be various configurations that I could choose to suit my needs.
Skipping forward to today I have had my Microserver for a good few months and have run it using FreeNAS but now I’m getting that nerd itch because it’s not running quite exactly how I want it.
Currently I have it so that it’s running FreeNAS and Serviio on top of that to serve my music up to my PS3, etc. but the current method of having to dig into the console to get it all working again every time FreeNAS releases an update is not sitting well with me.
With this in mind I’ve just decided to follow this guide over on the FreeNAS forums and set up a build environment which with any luck I will be able to use to slipstream Serviio into FreeNAS.
Cross your fingers!