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I just want something with sata ports and 10G ethernet so I can make a cheap, power efficient home NAS. Right now I'm using an old office PC that costs $7/m to
by apatheticonion 3y ago
I just want something with sata ports and 10G ethernet so I can make a cheap, power efficient home NAS.
Right now I'm using an old office PC that costs $7/m to run. Using the USB port on my router is too slow (maybe I need more expensive HDD enclosures) and can't RAID
- xyzzy123 3y agoODROID-H3/H3+ has 2 sata ports, emmc and an m.2 but you have to be willing to do a tiny bit of hacking to get 10gbe out of it. Supports a fair bit of ram (64GB) but no ECC which is a dealbreaker for some. The "hacks" with these are to use the m.2 port with an m.2 to PCIE adapter to get 10gbe or several more SATA ports. NAS's are tricky to spec because people have such a wide range of requirements. For example, a lot of people want their NAS to be able to do video transcoding which wouldn't work well on this hardware.
- apatheticonion 3y agoI just need a fast file host. The idea of video transcoding is pretty strange to me. What happened to the days where the client had the necessary codecs to play a video? Even if you store the video in the destination format, adding subtitles immediately requires Plex (and similar) to transcode, rendering the subtitles into the video. Personally, I have VLC installed on my Chromecast and, while it's not as pretty or convenient as Plex, the format of my files is irrelevant.