d6jg wrote: > > 1. Get a NAS from either manufacturer but consider the storage > requirement carefully. You can always upgrade the disks at a later > stage. > 2. Get yourself a Pi4. Install piCorePlayer and LMS on the Pi. Point it > at the storage on the NAS.
Another advantage to having a Pi in the system is that it can handle the backups. The primary storage can be on fancy NASes, but the Pi can host external USB drives and automatically perform automatic backups using rsync jobs scheduled via crontab. (That's pretty much what I've been doing for years now.) I'm curious if the new 8GB Pi 4 models work well with zfs (allegedly the most reliable file system out there). My guess in that case is that having two Pi 4 boxes (a primary and a backup) hosting USB drives would probably be both cheaper and more robust than a commercial NAS, but maybe I'm crazy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112670 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
