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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Southern New Jersey
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I was thinking of building a Freenas for my home network and do not know if the following configuration is possible. I would like to back up my iTunes library to it and use it server as a Plex server for my library as well but still use my external drive as my main library that my iMac connects to. I would use the Freenas to serve my wife's MacBook Pro, our iPhones, iPads etc. Is this possible?
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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As for iTunes, yes it's possible. One thing I found as an issue with iTunes libraries on an external device of any kind was that it took a lot longer for iTunes to find the next song...every time. This was a while ago, but it was on a 100Mbp wired network, so it wasn't the network media giving me problems. Maybe Freenas is faster today than the software I used then, but there's still going to be a different - and longer - delay.
I have no experience with Plex servers, but as long as your NAS storage is big enough, you should be able to make it work as long as Freenas supports Plex.
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Join Date: Jun 2006
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The last I looked into it, and this was awhile ago, Plex was a bit of a pain to get working side-by-side with FreeNAS. But things may have changed.
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Martin in the Scottish Highlands
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