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And how would be the watchfolder and auto deleting of already processed files work? Can you take advantage of full hardware accelerated encoding?

Thank you so much giving me starting guidance. Topic can be closed now.

Is there a handbrake plugin, so that my father would upload basic .mp4's to a folder on the server and let handbrake automatically compress and delete the lager file when finished? To avoid that his old cheap system running all night (which for me is a fire threat ) Or should I post this question in a different section of the forum?

But I can keep adding as many 4TB drives to the data pool as I want? Why doesn't the parity drive doesn't get to small for storing all the information? Crazy math I guess, if I find the time I will look into this deeper, sounds really interesting. But thank you for your help so far. Is there a handbrake plugin, so that my father would upload basic .mp4's to a folder on the server and let handbrake automatically compress and delete the lager file when finished? To avoid that his old cheap system running all night (which for me is a fire threat ) Or should I post this question in a different section of the forum?

@tdallen Thanks for your time and effort to explain it to me. I at least have now a (very) basic idea of parity. So if I set it up with 2 drives I get 4TB of storage, basically a Raid 1 mirror. However, it seems like in unraid you just can add drives to the pool later and extend it (you probably have to recalculate parity then) but why doesn't, lets say by adding 1 drive everytime the budget allows, the parity drive become too small for the storage capacity?

Of course I ment unraid, my head is just troubled in chaos because I have to find the best solution for my father, I am sorry I mixed it up. Thanks for your tips so far. So here is what I dont understand, how does this parity disk thing work? It can't be a Raid 1 mirror because then you wouldn't be able to just add more disks and use the full capacity with only 4TB of "parity"(whatever that means). Can someone (in simple terms) explain how this stuff works?

Hello, can someone who is more into unraid take a look at my configuration I choose for my farther and if it would work out? Thank you guys, so here we go: Intel Pentium G4400 or Intel Core i3 6100 2x 3.70GHz So.1151 BOX Fujitsu D3417-B or MSI C236M WORKSTATION 4000GB WD Red *2 16GB Crucial CT16G4WFD8213 DDR4-2133 360 Watt Seasonic G Serie 360 Non-Modular Nanoxia Deep Silence 4 gedämmt Mini Tower USB or a small SSD for the systems? (looks like unraid is ment for USB and if so does it work with skylake - usb3.0 controller which freenas doesn't?) My farther intends to use it as a media storage for his kodi media center connected to his tv (for recorded tv movies) and for savely storing emotional valuable data (photos and video's of us being little, his large music collection, etc). He is on a tight budget, you would laugh if you looked at the hardware he uses to cut the commercials by hand and the time consuming of offloading it from a tvheadend server rendering, transcoding it with handbrake and uploading it to the nas. I already wondered if he'd go with a core i3 instead and create a transcoding folder for that stuff and let the nas do it (he has a very old amd athlon maschine) but I worry if I can set this up for him with jail / watchfolder stuff. Moreover he wants the maschine to be his tv recorder at the same time because a water damage nearly killed his current 1 hdd nas and destroyed his seperate tvhe machine. However this again seems hard to realize since I found no real solution for tv recording in a docker/ jail. (And the stuff found left me question if it would work). Which way to go for data security and reliability regarding setup/ raid configuration / file system to take advantage from ecc? Can you please give me a recommended way to setup the config or if I should change some stuff? I really dont understand how unraid works in that matter. Best regards Jan

Thanks, is this maschine powerful enough for a couple of dockers? (like tvheadend, btsync, ..)? Do I need a chache pool drive or will it perform well without one too?

Hello, I need your advice. I want to build a buget nas for around 300€ in parts without the drives. It shouldn't consume to much energy, but still have good transfer speeds and be reliable. Additionally I plan to a dvr plugin like tvhe to record television and maybe if this possible do some encoding via handbrake or so. Here are the parts: https://www.mindfactory.de/shopping_cart.php/basket_action/load_basket_extern/id/020332221a3596ab85eb4c915a75488a4b790173eeff84e7a15 Intel Pentium G4400 2x 3.30GHz So.1151 8GB G.Skill Value 4 DDR4-2400 DIMM CL15 Gigabyte GA-B150M-HD3 Intel B150 So.1151 Nanoxia Deep Silence 4 gedämmt Mini Tower 360 Watt Seasonic G Serie 360 Non-Modular + I plan to add WD RED 3*3TB Raid 5 Array for the drives. Thanks in advance!