Hello all, Let me start by saying that I love OMV. I have built two or three systems in the past two years with different configurations and hardware and have enjoyed them all. (I could save a lot of headaches by using virtual box for my experiments, but you what they say... GOD hates a coward.)
I also love recycling hardware, especially free stuff, that my work throws out. I am currently running one WIn7 box for general desktop stuff, bit torrent dl's, internet research, newsgroup client, etc. I have an old Dell optiplex 330 running OMV, w/ SABnzbd, SickBeard, and PLexMedia Server, never did get Couchpotato to work well, and haven't tried transmission yet. I have a Dell poweredge SC320 running NAS4Free for extra file storage.
I just got 2 DL380's from work that were perfectly fine and were running Server 2003. I have loads of drives for them, mostly 72GB and 148GB. (300gb drives are available for ~$60 ea for future expansion).
Do you think that OMV on one of these machines is a worth while project, giving thier power consumption, noise and limited drive space?
Or should i consider staring new? with an new tower case with WD RED drives (preferably external access to drives) and a modern day mobo and cpu
My main objective is to build a more reliable system. While my systems build from spare parts are Fun, then do have some drawbacks. I'd like to get to a set-up with 4-6 TB of space for streaming media and file storage.
Thanks in advance for your advice.
p.s. I keep getting keyboard errors when re-booting my OMV box, very annoying when running remotely. Is this because i have a KVM switch attached to the box and it senses the usb connector but no active keyboard? or did i screw up a setting somewhere?
Thanks again.