FOSS software to make old PC into a NAS? (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by mihnt@kbin.social to c/foss@beehaw.org

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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.)

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[-] mihnt@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[-] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] mihnt@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

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

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