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personally I copy the file to my laptop etc. if I plan on watching something when not at home. Same applies to my large music collection on…

landfill.. a term which should have been applied to Trump.

I thought killing fascists was always ok, no joke. Since those two people you mentioned are not fascists, then no it would not be ok to…

as you should also care about political happenings in Asia and Europe - we're connected economies and bad politics affects everyone. Not to…

Tang.. isn't that a bright orange, toxic... oh yeah just like Trump.

we can only hope for more holes to be made in the near future.

for home use it's all most people have, though there is a slow advancement into 2.5GBps NICs in the home consumer space.

if you're streaming videos in the format you downloaded / created them in, then you do not need transcoding. There are lots of 2 bay…

?? setup = install motherboard, run cabling, install PSU and HDDs, then install whatever operating system in it you want to use. Lots of…

they were installed as DSM apps or as command line over 11 years ago.. well before docker was released in 2013. I'm waiting on a new 8 bay…

ahh missed it in the word salad

most people just want file storage/accessibility from a NAS, they never use any other feature.

I have sonarr, sabnzb etc. on my DSM 5.2 - works fine still

if you can install TrueNAS on this hardware, you could install xpeneology :)

no worries, it really is a lot easier than expected (imo) - especially if you go the xpeneology 'test' route first - synology O/S is quite…

I still have 3x HP micro servers which have 4x pull out / insert bays (and space for another 2 drives internally). You know how many times…

google for xpeneology, then hit youtube. though I will say it's pretty much as easy as download the bootable installer, put it on a usb…

yeah the N95 and N100 are low power (6-15 Watts maximum) CPUs and only supports single channel DDR4 (Intel have hobbled it imo), but for…

Aliexpress have lots of them, however I bought from amazon for slightly higher price compared to aliexpress, but easier warranty.

whoops.. I forgot about the SATA cables - 6x SATA II thin cables with right angle connectors on one end - to make it neater and easier to…

following up.. for those that DO like to build things themselves, there are plenty of N100 based motherboards with 6x SATA ports and 4x…

or a third party O/S like xpeneology. I bought an N95 motherboard ($188) with 12x SATA ports (but only 2x 1G NICs) and an Antec Silent P101…

so tell me whatchya want, whatchya really really want

cognitive sense and the overpowering desire to feel ''better'' than someone else are usually mutually exclusive.

an N100 is about twice as powerful as the Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550, so should be able to handle everything you had it doing before really…

@Wayne7497 - that is what the media player does.. it handles resizing to the native tv resolution and real-time audio conversion if needed.…

@Larsson my ancient Amlogic S905X2 android media player (running coreelec o/s and KODI app) happily plays 4K HDR DV 7.1 atmos high bitrate…

Top Secret was recently remastered at 4K - so time to watch it again :)

You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know...…

greed.. I think Intel nerfed dual channel RAM usage as it would have been too good a performer at the budget end.