2017-01-30, 05:58
(2017-01-30, 05:00)Tinwarble Wrote:(2017-01-30, 04:02)SilverBlade Wrote: Writing to external hard drives.
How many external hard drives can be mounted by the Shield TV? A 2 Hard drive limitation is a deal-breaker for me instantly. (no, I don't have a NAS...RAID would not work for me since I have 4 hard drives with 3 different capacities. Plus I can only afford a media player or a NAS, both are simply not affordable, so I need something that can mount 4+ external drives)
The Shield supports up to 2 HDDs connect via USB.
A NAS does not need to be set up as RAID, most you can setup as JBOD or SPAN which means you don't need to have the same size HDDs.
My suggestion would be to get something like a RPi, attach your drives to it and use it as a cheap NAS.
I'm not much into 'tinkering' anymore. Anything to do with command-line is an automatic 'nope' for me.
The RPi is junk for a NAS because the USB and ethernet port are on the same controller.
Plus, I'd have to buy 2 NAS units right away. They are like $300+ each (I'm Canadian, we get *hosed* on tech prices). It's just unaffordable.
