4k NAS Build

[The_Great_Ambicatus]

Hey guys, so I was looking for some suggestions building a NAS device also using it for Media serving. I currently have an old system I built with a Core 2 Duo Quad Core, and 2 gigs of DDR2 Ram, and an Nvidia quadro 2000 ( I wasn't kidding about the old part) Obviously this system isn't able to keep up with today's media. I'd like to recycle my old case, usb ports are only 2.0 but I figured I could always go with a PCI card. It's a full ATX case.

[Electronics Wizardy]

How do you want to stream 4k?  If your just playing 4k video from a file share, a core 2 duo is more than enough. If you want transcoding, you want much more.

 

The quadro 2000 isn't helping you here at all, its too old for nvenc.

 

How many TB do you need?

[The_Great_Ambicatus]

So I was thinking of doing streaming from the Hard Drives and also from online sources, I know the graphics card is practically useless, lol I'm not 100% on the amount of TB I have a 1tb that's half full already with some old movies and a lot of my photography.  

[Electronics Wizardy]

26 minutes ago, The_Great_Ambicatus said:

So I was thinking of doing streaming from the Hard Drives and also from online sources, I know the graphics card is practically useless, lol I'm not 100% on the amount of TB I have a 1tb that's half full already with some old movies and a lot of my photography.  

If its just a file servver then put your os of choice on there and share the folder.

 

Are you using something like plex?

[The_Great_Ambicatus]

Right now I'm using Ubuntu 19 with a Samba shared drive  and Kodi to handle the media player ability