How much horsepower do you figure is needed to serve up a few (4 max
likely) video streams of data? Looking at resurrecting my old A7N8X PC
as a linux NAS/mediaserver to serve up media files (MKV, VOB, MP3, FLAC)
over my wired network.
It has the XP-M CPU overclocked (3200?), 1GB RAM, & dual 100Mb Ethernet.
It seems a shame to let it collect dust and NAS/media server solutions
seem to be so expensive!
I won't be doing transcoding but might want to be able to transmux for
the PS3 which may or may not be aided by the ATI X850 in the box.
There's only 2 SATA ports but I'm thinking I can easily get an
inexpensive card, RAID or not, to support 3-6 drives I'll move over from
my workstation.
2 services come to mind: SAMBA & some DNLA server like PS3MediaServer,
TVersity, or Myth. Assume I can run all that under Ubuntu or something
with this low end hardware? Cheap 8 bay case, 350-500W PSU, RAID card,
maybe 2GB DDR RAM still got to be way cheaper than a media server, no?
- [H] DIY JOBD NAS/Mediaserver Joshua MacCraw
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