NAS - Current Setup vs Pi2

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Good morning,

Just a quick one really. Currently have an old Samsung NC10 notebook running windows with a usb2 hard-drive plugged in and using as a server which i then use a Pi2 with OSMC to play media from in the lounge.

I wouldnt invisage using the NAS a great amount more then for this reason so am interested in a Pi2 setup as will take up less space and potentially be a bit more reliable/save a bit on power draw. Happy to move over to a linux based solution

Main question is, am i likely to see a performance hit in serving my media vs what i currently have? i dont use any transcoding as the OSMC does all that it literally just serves the media.

Have done a bit of background reading so aware of the USB2 limitation however similar to what the NC10 will be experiencing?

Thank you for any input
 
The trouble with the Pi as a NAS, is you're limited to ~12MB/s transfer speeds because of the 100Mbit LAN port.

If you have high quality files you'll run into problems when streaming to more than one device. Also will take ages to transfer files to the Pi.


A typical Synology NAS will be more like 100-112MB/s transfer speeds (providing you have a gigabit network)

Spending £30-£50 on a Pi2 to save the power used by a NC10 netbook would take years to pay off btw..
 
using pi2 as a client = yes brilliant, hides behind the TV don't even know its there

as a server, i wouldn't personally, for not much more you can get a much better nas box with 10x the transfer rates
 
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