Raspberry Pi: Turn the popular single-board computer into a NAS and a media center with free cloud storage

[Redaktion]

A new project can transform the humble Raspberry Pi into a media center in a rather simple manner. The Pi can access both locally stored data or data stored in the cloud.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Raspberry-Pi-Turn-the-popular-single-board-computer-into-a-NAS-and-a-media-center-with-free-cloud-storage.466079.0.html

[Michael Eiler]

I wanted to use my RPI4 for similar purposes but noticed a few limitations which I documented in my blog in detail: michaelspinboard.blogspot.com .
Summoning up my experience: it works and performs well if you don't care about crypto since the soc lacks AES extensions. Also using a SATA SSD as data storage drive didn't work out as many of the 2.5" drive cases still use outdated controllers (I tried three of them...).

I didn't cover hardware video encoders and decoders in my blog post but I successfully managed to get h264 encode/decode running after recompiling the kernel on Ubuntu and enabling an additional kernel module. But it looks like they are switching over to v4l2_m2m in kernel 5.4 which still takes time to majure . (but it is technically a good decision to use an open, modern api).

I still like the RPI4, it's an amazing single board computer. Especially considering the price. But for my own setup I decided to use an AsRock DeskMini A300 instead.

[HelSteven]

So what chance is there for us uncodified meson types. How do you actually plug your hard drives in and when? Most notable is the unintelligible video...what are they thinking? I guess it could be me though?