On Mon, 2017-11-06 at 08:09 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 11/06/17 05:30, François Patte wrote: > > Does anyone have some experience in building a NAS --- stocking and > > broadcasting multimedia stuff on home network --- using fedora? > > > In the past, yes. But then more, and varied, devices were bought. Android devices, > SmartTV, etc. Then friends learned what I had and asked for access. And knew the > space needed to be expanded. Looking around I found very good options for dedicated > NAS at low prices. Included in the offerings were Android and Apple apps to make > access easy with a nice end user experience. Things like thumbnails for TV shows and > Movies, the ability to mark them watched. Also, the system will download and in the > apps display descriptions of the show/episode or movie. And a bunch of other stuff. > So, for me, I didn't see the need to reinvent the wheel and then maintain it. That > wasn't my goal. > > I spend less than US$ 400 for a 2 bay unit to take advantage of RAID. > > Just something to consider. That would be the cost *without* the disk drives, right? All the same, I'm broadly on the same page. Unless the OP has a suitable box lying around, it's reasonable to get an off-the-shelf NAS for this kind of thing. Just be aware that most of the cheaper units have anemic CPUs that may not be up to transcoding high-quality video for multiple streaming users. There's a Plex guide here: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201373793 which should give an idea of the kind of thing to look out for, even if not using Plex. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
