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Hello
At the moment I have an aging NAS, which is used to store music (for a Sonos system), and an aging Kodi box to stream/play video stored on the NAS.
I'm thinking that the NAS and Kodi box could be replaced with a mini-pc, with a linux distro installed on it (e.g. Ubuntu or Linux Mint), which would act both as a NAS and media server. For example, I would buy an intel NUC mini-pc, that would be connected to a couple of USB 3.0 2TB HDDs (acting as a NAS), and installing Kodi (as the media server).
I would want the HDDs to be network accessible by other devices too, e.g. my PC (linux-based), laptops (some using Windows), Sonos system (which uses samba sharing), and Android phone. The NUC would be left on 24/7 and hdmi output connected to the TV or projector.
Is this possible, relatively easy to setup? Would accessing the HDDs be any slower than using a regular type NAS box? (I don't need RAID or huge data storage for the NAS).
Thanks for any advice. |
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