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.
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