On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 7:51 AM Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: > > On 19/12/2022 12:00, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 12:11 AM Dale<rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> If I like these Raspberry things, may make a media box out of one. I'd > >> like to have a remote tho. 😉 > > > So, I've done that. Honestly, these days a Roku is probably the > > better option, or something like a Google Chromecast or the 47 other > > variations on this them. > > Where do you put that 2TB drive on your Roku or Chromecast? > > I'm thinking of building a media server, not to drive the TV, but to > record and store. I thought that was what a media server was!
So, he said "media box," which I assumed meant the client that attaches to the TV. There are some canned solutions for media servers - I think the NVidia Shield can run Plex server for example. However, in general server-side I'd go amd64. My current solution is: 1. Moosefs for storage: amd64 container for the master, and ARM SBCs for the chunkservers which host all the USB3 hard drives. With a modest number of them performance is very good, though certainly not as good as Ceph or local storage. (I do have moosefs in my overlay - might try to get that into the main repo when I get a chance.) 2. Plex server in a container on amd64 (looking to migrate this to k8s over the holiday). 3. Rokus or TV apps for the clients. -- Rich
