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I'm looking to offload all my media from my main PC and make it accessible to other devices in my house. It's likely to only be a few TB, probably 2 drives at most.

I've been trying to find a low-power solution since it will be running all the time. I do have a PoE switch, so it would be a bonus if it can run off PoE but not a requirement. I've been checking out a lot of the SBC's that have become popular over the past couple years, but even the budget ones have gotten pretty expensive.

What are some good options?

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[–] STROHminator@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Currently running as my backup NAS is the ODROID-HC4. It’s running Open Media Vault on Armbian. https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc4/

[–] moody@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That looks pretty decent. I don't like the toaster form factor, but I'm sure I can just use SATA extensions and 3d print a good case for it.

OMV can run NFS, right?

[–] STROHminator@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yup. Including smb and ftp

[–] morras@jlai.lu 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You know that NAS can go in sleep mode, right? And wake up only when you try to activate them.

But what is the use-case? Only make your holiday films available to a media center? Or do you plan to also use it as a storage for other devices?

In the first case a sbc can do the trick (however can struggle if you share 4k). But I would definitely look into "real" NAS (Synology, qnas, etc.) before using a sbc.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's just for using as shared storage between several devices. Just receive files from whichever device I'm using, and serve them later to another device. Basically to replace having to use an external drive and swapping it between devices.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

“real” NAS (Synology, qnas, etc.)

Any modern SBC is better than that crap.

[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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NAS Network-Attached Storage
SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
SBC Single-Board Computer

3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 20 acronyms.

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[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

PoE = Power Over Ethernet

[–] BeefHouse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I use a NanoPi M4 V2, which has a SATA hat accessory. It will support 4 HDDs and even power them if they are all 2.5" drives, or you can do what I did and use 4x 3.5" drives in a simple cheap cage and a separate 12V 8A power supply on the side to power the lot. No problems streaming 4K x265 content using Plex (with a compatible Plex Media Client)