I also had one of those WD MyCloud things or whatever my version was called. I had root access on that too, whatever stripped down ARM based debian build it was. Was cool but I couldn't really rely on it for server-ish stuff
@Sicklyboy facts, i have a se
cond one set up to stream to our bedroom, we have a not smart tv in there but even if it was a smart tv i would still do it that way.
@wolffangalchemist, real, smart TVs are so ass I have a smart tv in my living room and still have one of the Android TV chromecast dongles plugged into it
and if i didnt plug in the external drive a few soconds after booting it just didnt show up at all so it was pretty temperment if you have a power outage.
I'm running TrueNAS Scale on both my NAS boxes right now. One with 12x 8TB disks and one with 14x 14TB disks I've spent way too much fucking money on this hobby
@K3Nv3, I bought most of these 14TB disks when they were at their cheapest during covid, around 160 a piece I think. Give or take a little, plus a few of those disks are refurbed enterprise disks that were cheaper. So, you do the math