Drive Enclosure That appears as a LAN Share?

[PeteCress]

Sounds like a NAS box application, I know - but I don't want a NAS because I already have 6 tb of stuff on two Windiws-firmatted drives and want to avoid the hassle of migration to a NAS' RAID array.

Instead, I would like to simply move those two 3-tb drives from the PC they currently live in to a couple of LAN-present enclosures.

The greater agenda being to move my Sage server from my desktop PC to a little fanless OC sitting under my kitchen TV and freeing up the HD-200 currently there for another use.

I guess the obvious alternative is a mini or micro OC box with two 3.5" bays and an SD system drive.

Googling so far is turning up discontinued devices.

Can anybody shed some light?

[dstanley]

Maybe check out some of the ODROID products from www.hardkernel.com to see if they have something you could use - maybe the ODROID-HC2 : Home Cloud Two would work out.
I use a C2 for my Plex client running OpenPHT and it plays everything that I throw at it will full audio pass thru too.

[dstanley]

Also check out https://www.addonics.com/products/nas40esu.php
This is a neat device that should work for you - I have an older usb only version that I use.
You would need drive enclosure(s) but this is probably the closest you will get to your requirements. You can add the drives without formatting them too.

[PeteCress]

I pulled the trigger on an Odroid H-2 a couple days ago.

Once I establish that even I can install a distro and get it running, I'll order the second one.

[PeteCress]

Originally Posted by dstanley

I use a C2 for my Plex client running OpenPHT and it plays everything that I throw at it will full audio pass thru too.

I am assuming that you formatted the drive EXT4.

I got an HC2, put an OpenMediaVault system on it, tried migrating a NTFS drive to it, but no luck so far.

Re-formatted the drive as EXT4 and OMV was happy, did the share, and all that.

But when I included the share in Sage's RecordedTV sources, Sage started throwing errors - which went away when I removed the share... twice.... so I'm pretty sure that Sage was choking on it.

Seems contra-intuitive that such a big project as OpenMediaVault cannot support NTFS - so maybe there's still hope there...

[dstanley]

I only use my Odroid C2 as a client player- not storage - so all my media is on my UnRaid server.
The Addonics device listed above was probably the better (and easier) choice for what you were trying to do.
Hope I didn't mislead you into the HC2.

However a quick look at the docs shows that NTFS is one of the file systems supported on a mounted drive!?

Dwight

[PeteCress]

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The Addonics device listed above was probably the better (and easier) choice for what you were trying to do.
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Yeah, the product description does sound more Plug-and-Playish.

But it's sounding more and more to me like the only thing between me and the HC working is User RCI.