Dear RG Colleagues,
I have large number of music and pictures in CD-ROMs. I need to build LAN network accessed storage using of-the-shelf components.
What are the needed components for hardware and software?
I am good in Linux and I think It is easier and cheaper for me.
Your help please.
Hi, Basheer!
You can use minimal hardware like 2-4 cores, 4 GB ram and 1TB (at least) storage as hardware and Linux with DHCP(to play music/videos in local network) or/ and SAMBA-server installed as software.
I think it's all you need to satisfy your requirements.
It's pretty much plug and play nowadays. You can get a portable solid state drive and plug it into your router; most of those drive products have instructions and software that come with them to do that. Or you can go all out like the above comment.
Have a look at hardkernels products. I have been using the odroid XU4 for my project work, it has 8 cores and a GPU, based on Samsungs' exynos 5422 (was in the S5 phone). Odroid do a home cloud device, 4 boards with 8 cores if you are that serious and need 32 cores!! see https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-mc1-my-cluster-one-with-32-cpu-cores-and-8gb-dram/
They also have new boards in the release path, reasonably priced!
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