Hello, Thanks and Questions

Hello together,

since yesterday I am a user of this realy interesting project. For testing I made a build on VMWare on my main computer and until now I am very thrilled. So first of all: Thank you people which create this softwares and operating systems, you are the good guys

Until now I used Windows on my server, since I also use it as a recording/streaming service via DVB-Viewer and for ... jdownloader. I don´t use Raids until now, but usually JBOD with 6 hdds and 1 ssd for the system, since I dont need filesafety and also I don´t want all hard disks to run while whatching one single movie (which I think would be the case on a Raid 5?). Server HW is a G1620 on a B75 pro3 M (asrock) Mainboard with 2x2gb Ram. perhaps I will switch to the Q2900M Mainboard with its very low TDP, die Q1900M I use for openelec.

So far one question is already made:
- If I would set up a software Raid 5 with 5 (or 6) HDDs, would all discs run while streaming a movie to any client?
- I am pretty sure I woll have more questions about installing TVheadend and a downloading tool, but first I will make some researche in the forum

Thanks so far,
regards,
Michael

yes, found already snapraid, which also seems to be capable of handling different HDD sizes (which is the case in my server at the moment). I will make experiments with 5 virtual hdds different sizes and already filled with datas.
Is OMV with snapraid (or even easier: while using single drives without any raid) able to handle NTFS disks? This would give me the chance to manage the data-files on a windows PC when something goes wrong with the OMV (I am not really experienced with linux oder command line

Hi, NTFS isnt available while mounting a file system anyway...or I didnt see it
Yesterday I made a VMware Setup with 4 hdds different sizes for snap raid (3 Data, 1 parity) und 2 single HDDs. All of them I shared via samba + the snapraid pool.

first impressions:
- manipulated files (after synch) did not get repaired properly (videos had the correct file size, but werent able to get played, VLC showed error message)
- I dont understand yet what the logic behind die pool is, I mean when and how it gets updatet to show all files of all pooled hdds
- the handling of files, (organizing jdownloader, coping, unziping) is not as easy/comfortable as I can do it on a Windows Server via remotedesktop
- the "How To"s for installing TVHeadend and DL tools seem to be a little bit to complicated (for me )

So far I think as a single DataServer without other purposes OMV with a real raid 5 is a fabulous system. But I will keep on testing.