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Yeah I'm rethinking things. I suppose it doesn't make much sense to have all this content and lose it to a single drive failure.
As for stripping was just looking at the highest total space.
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As for stripping was just looking at the highest total space.
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Anyone have experience with one of these?
I'm worried that the ARM processor will be too slow. I'm only going to use it for photo/doc backup but I'd also like to stream movies off it to multiple devices. Shield + HDD isn't working, can barely stream 1 movie and forget trying to FF/RW it saturates it and crashes.
I'm worried that the ARM processor will be too slow. I'm only going to use it for photo/doc backup but I'd also like to stream movies off it to multiple devices. Shield + HDD isn't working, can barely stream 1 movie and forget trying to FF/RW it saturates it and crashes.
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I have a qnap ts 451 that is 10 years old and still runs fine. Only issue I had was a clock issue in the Celeron processor that was fixed by putting a 100ohm resistor between two jumpers. I run a Plex server, a MySQL server and 4 containers for my Usenet stuff. I did upgrade it from 4 gigs of ram to 8 gigs.
It does bog down when transcoding for remote viewing with Plex on occasion but for local viewing it runs just fine. I use Kodi for local streaming.
I would think that the arm processor will be just fine streaming locally.
It does bog down when transcoding for remote viewing with Plex on occasion but for local viewing it runs just fine. I use Kodi for local streaming.
I would think that the arm processor will be just fine streaming locally.
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Won't be using plex at all, Kodi all the way. I'll keep thinking about it. Max Ram is 16gb which I would do right off the jump. Also considering just getting an ATX case and filling it full of NAS HDD's and running TruNAS. Honestly I'm driving myself nuts.
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The qnap would be more than enough for kodi playback. But then I built my own and installed truenas.
Depends on how much you like doing stuff your own. Qnap is for sure easy to set up and use. I found their OS fairly easy. You could run multiple apps on it and still not see a slowdown.
I use Unraid OS because it has the advantage of being able to swap in parts from my gaming pc as I upgrade it. You can also pretty much use any HD as long as the parity drive is the larger capacity. Disadvantage is spending money for a license if you want to use over a certain amount of HD's but its been well worth it for me.
You can usually find decent deals for large capacity HDs on goharddrive or serverpartdeals. I've bought recertified enterprise drives (18TB+) from them for over 10 years now and I've had only one failure.
For CPUs for media playing you really just want to make sure the cpu is modern enough to transcode the different formats. I think Intel has a chart for what cpus do but i think any modern i3 or i5 is plenty.
You can usually find decent deals for large capacity HDs on goharddrive or serverpartdeals. I've bought recertified enterprise drives (18TB+) from them for over 10 years now and I've had only one failure.
For CPUs for media playing you really just want to make sure the cpu is modern enough to transcode the different formats. I think Intel has a chart for what cpus do but i think any modern i3 or i5 is plenty.
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Since I cannot select a disk, I cannot create shit. Anyone else run into this? I'm pausing for a while since I'm getting the distinct urge to take a sledge hammer to this fucking thing.
Operator error as usual.
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