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
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