zondag 4 augustus 2013

Media Centers

In every room we had a Raspberry Pi, running Raspbmc (a Linux distribution for the Raspberry Pi with XBMC) for our music and other media. As Raspberry Pi had fine support for IPv6, this was an easy step.
The only issue we had, was not IPv6 related. Raspbmc sometimes wasn't very stable so we changed it to OpenELEC (Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center).  OpenELEC also supports IPv6.

All Raspberries are connected to the NAS. We had a Netgear ReadyNAS RND4000 but there will never be IPv6 support for it. On top of that, it was time for a nice upgrade anyway....




Benjamin decided to build the NAS himself with the following specs:
Homebuilt PC
ASrock motherboard
Intel core I5
4x Western Digital 2T disk

The 4 2T disks are in an ZFS pool (raid Z1) and the operating system and databases are run from the SSD.

The costs? A whopping 550 Euro for the hardware and another 200 Euro for the disks. But hey, our NAS is now IPv6 ready :)

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