On 06/11/2017 11:43, Ed Greshko wrote:
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.
I bought a NAS dual bay device with 2 1TB drives that have been
configured in Raid 0 mode for around $250 - $300 Australian. I am using
the device as a storage device and for streaming videos to this Fedora
machine and a Raspberry PI media player using Kodi. I have the device
mounted as both nfs and ntfs, but like mentioned in another thread the
nfs mount point doesn't work anymore. I'll need to do some checking to
try to determine why. i have had some issues with the ntfs mount point
where I delete files under fedora, which fedora recognizes as gone, but
windows and kodi still see the files.
regards,
Steve
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