> A BPi can stand as a media server, but I don't recommend it in
> general. A media server to a very limited number of clients does
> not need much I/O power, but if it needs to recode a video on the
> fly, a BPi is going to be really hard pressed to keep up,
> especially if it is attempting to serve multiple streams.
In my case the videos aren't recoded on the fly by the media server, so
this is not an issue. In theory, recoding on the fly should be possible
(at least for some combinations of input/output formats), tho, using
the A20'a VPU. I never tried, tho.
Still, recoding doesn't seem to justify 15GB in addition to the 1GB of
my server.
I'm not saying 16GB can't be useful in a NAS (I don't assume my use case
to be the same as the OP's, for example), I'm just pointing out that it
can be massively overkill for some NAS scenarios, so it's a bad idea to
recommend it without first knowing what the usage will look like.
Stefan
