I'm working on learning about servers and such but it's a lot to take in. I'm looking to get a 5tb hard drive and install it into a network attached storage tower. What else would be needed to make this work? Links provided are what I'm thinking

QNAP TS-233-US 2 Bay Affordable Desktop NAS with ARM Cortex-A55 Quad-core Processor and 2 GB DDR4 RAM (Diskless) https://a.co/d/725WsHM

Seagate Portable 5TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC, Mac, PS4, & Xbox - 1-Year Rescue Service (STGX5000400), Black https://a.co/d/fClqYLT

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[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The only question I would say that decides what you get is, do you want files to be transcoded for clients or not.

If not, you can definitely use anything since you just stream directly. I use a Raspberry Pi 4, works perfectly with 3 users direct stream at home.

If you want to be able to supply transcoding you need to lookout for supported hardware, but I am the wrong person to talk about that, given I only use the Rpi4.

[–] CarrotBottom@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

May I ask what you did with your GPU vs ARM memory allocation?

I have 320M for GPU. Seems to work fine, but not sure what is ideal.

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

Uh, to be honest I made no changes to anything memory-wise really. Its a rpi 4 with 8gb ram (I think?), so maybe if you have less ram on a rpi it might get problematic?