I have an old i3 PC that I’d like to useas a NAS but I’d prefer to use FOSS instead as realistically I don’t know even this is even the solution I want to go with and would rather avoid dropping a lot of money on something I may change.
EDIT: Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I will be bookmarking them all. Probably give TrueNAS a go first since I’ve heard of it before. (I think from LTT.)
You could just install a minimal Debian system and install what you want after that. I use Nextcloud on my media Center for example. If you just want a Windows share you could instsll samba. If your Linux you could use ssh or nfs. Or could use Syncthing. All of these are pretty standard.
The big question is do you want raid. If so you need at least two storage volumes.
I haven’t purchased any hardware at all yet. Live 3.4 miles from a microcenter though so it’ll be easy to go buy too many things.
I run a mix of Windows and Linux on the network, but the Windows machines it’s less important that it has access. Probably just do a samba share at first so I can just mount the NAS to a folder on my main pc so I can use VLC to cast to my chromecast.
Interesting. So VLC can Chromecast? Did not know that. Thanks.
Yeah, Playback > Renderer. Change it to the chromecast.
