On 11/06/17 08:31, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > 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. No, it was US$400 including 2-3TB drives. I got a Synology. I thought about a higher end model but I didn't have a need for transcoding. -- Fedora Users List - The place to go to speculate endlessly
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