sfx..do you have any specific hardware idea for me?
True, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I find HW controllers much more reliable than the software provided on consumer products (i.e. Buffalo ).HW RAID locks one in to a specific controller
Yes, I've got one - from HP- and even there - some of those are fake-raid dependent on OS level drivers...
That's a valid opinion, but one I don't share.These days - SW RAID is more adaptable and flexible across different OS's
True.- and CPU's are still faster than many ASIC oriented host controllers...
That's a very Linux view of the world.mdadm/lvm are your friends here... and then one can layer on whatever filesystems one wants....
A NAS doesn't need much CPU if it's just being a NAS! i.e. just serving up files across the network. The problem comes with these consumer devices when they start adding extra "features" beyond what a normal NAS would do, i.e. Transcoding video (Plex Media Server), downloading torrents, etc.YES OR NO - Does the performance of the CPU on the NAS really matter if the Plex Media Player is on my laptop as previously discussed?
I give up...you guys win.
My crappy Asustor AS-202TE with its pathetic Intel® ATOM™ 1.2GHz Dual-Core Processor has Plex Media Server installed on it.
That's a very Linux view of the world.
That's fine then. All you have to do (as you asked originally) is add extra storage to it. As far as I can tell from reading the manual the only way to do that is to plug in a USB storage device. Correct me if I'm wrong. Or can the Plex server on the Asustor access files stored elsewhere on the LAN?And as I have said many times, my laptop, which has Plex Media Player installed on it, can play 1080P videos from the HDDs in the NAS, no problem.
If the NAS is only being used as a file server (and not running apps like Plex) then you don't need a super processor.So, tell me again why I need some super processor in the NAS? I just need a processor to handle RAID, right?
That's fine then. All you have to do (as you asked originally) is add extra storage to it. As far as I can tell from reading the manual the only way to do that is to plug in a USB storage device. Correct me if I'm wrong. Or can the Plex server on the Asustor access files stored elsewhere on the LAN?
If the NAS is only being used as a file server (and not running apps like Plex) then you don't need a super processor.
Interesting review of the Plex server's ability here at about 9 minutes 10 seconds.
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