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by zackify 1096 days ago
I’ve been using it for a year. I don’t name anything in a special way, and it just works.
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Yup running it on RPi with external hard drive. No need to name anything.
As rPi 4Bs are hard to get still / overpriced, unless you’re absolutely married to the rPi, check out OrangePi 5B for a much faster CPU, more RAM, eMMC, and good wifi OR get the 5+ for the same minus wifi (it has an E-key m.2 to add it) but adds a 2280 m.2 so you could throw a 4TB m.2 SSD on there (which are about $200 now) and now you’ve got a pretty dang good little NAS that’s fast and fanless for about $350-400 all-in. Did I mention the 5+ has 2x 2.5G Ethernet?
For less than that much you could get a tiny N100 computer.
My pi3b with 3 512GB flash drives streams perfectly in 720p and uses less power than the lamp next to the sofa, what a time to be alive
How would you rate the performance? Is it sufficient for 4K HDR streams over your network?