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 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only question I would say that decides what you get is, do 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 10 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 10 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?