SFF to stream to TV and torrent

[Trojan Horse]

Hi there

Recently I got fibre and have been using my 850w i5 to torrent except now I want a more power efficient way of downloading.

I want to keep a small low power PC online for like 12h a day a few days of the week and want to keep it next to my TV (downstairs next to router) my PC is upstairs connected on same network, different router (homepluged into router into PC).

The SFF will be Ethernet connected and I just want to know what can I use to torrent and stream to my TV via HDMI

Want to connect the SFF up to a external USB hard drive and a 32gb sd card to boot from.

I've never done this before so can anyone point me in general direction to be able to use my SFF as a webviewer, controlled from upstairs on PC.

So what kind of SFF can I use with this, I am wanting to use a raspberry pi 2 b, connected to sd and USB ext 2tb drive.


Also TV isn't smart which is why I'm doing this.


Thanks very much, any help is appreciated!!

 

[Trojan Horse]

I have just bought a Intel Nuc. Its the dual core Celeron (NUCand I have stuck 8Gb in mine with an SSD and its pretty nippy. The Nuc was about £107, memory £35 and I already had the SSD. This is for my main pc though as I only need it for browsing, rdp and kodi but should be more than enough for your useage. It also has a dedicated SD Card slot as well. Oh and that cpu only takes 6w under load..

Which NUC is that? Oh you has to pay for ram seperate, isn't 4gb (£20) enough for an NUC and do you install windows on it to torrent?


Also thanks very much

 

[Trojan Horse]

Thanks pal

I'm going to be getting a Gigabyte Brix bxbt-2807 for £80 - opinions? Do you reckon it can fit a 2TB HDD (3.5") £55 or will I have to go external?

Also would I be able to run both windows 7 (my sister might want to play flash games on the internet) as well as FreeNAS

Thanks

 

[Trojan Horse]

Hey man thanks for that, I would do that but with HDDs value warranty more, but think USN3 is adequate don't need SATA as all it is going to do is access video files really, and boot FreeNAS from a 8gig USB stick

Also I've looked into it more and had a look at some NAS servers. The Netgear RN10400-100EUS looks real neat, £140 instead of £80 (gigabyte brix) but has 3 hard drive caddies and will work out a better investment in the long run; have you had experience with either?

Are NAS servers just PCs on small form factor, realize can use this for Plex and backup my family photos so really quite useful

 

[Trojan Horse]

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