On Mon, 2017-11-06 at 19:36 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > 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. Surely you mean NFS and Samba, or are you talking about two partitions? poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
