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#1

I have an old HP z600 with 2 Xeon E5630 processors and 16 GB of RAM, a NVIDIA Quadro K2000d video card and currently running Windows 10.

I am thinking about either installing Channels DVR within Windows 10, which is running on a small SSD.

Or, I might convert it to a FreeNAS box.

Either way, I don't plan to spend much money, at all.

A couple of questions to you guys:

Can the CPUs and video card handle what Channels DVR needs from it?

I am looking at buying a couple of WD Blue 4GB 5400RPM disks and RAID 0 them: I don't think there would be any issues with 5400RPM drives, but is there a concern?

So:
Use this Box?
Windows 10 or FreeNAS?
CPUs and Video Card are good or not?
5400RPM drives?

#2

That is far more power than necessary. 5400 drives are fine, assuming you don't plan to write a bunch of streams at once; but the striping should help with that, too.

I'm not sure NVidia hardware acceleration is available for FreeBSB/TrueNAS (né FreeNAS), so if hardware transcoding is necessary, Windows may serve you better.