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.)

  • mihntOP
    3•1 year ago

    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.

    • flatbield
      2•1 year ago

      Interesting. So VLC can Chromecast? Did not know that. Thanks.

      • mihntOP
        2•1 year ago

        Yeah, Playback > Renderer. Change it to the chromecast.