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Tulloh

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Ok so I’ve bought a few of these droid boxes , U9-H being my favorite. All have the ability it seems to map to a storage drive. Any suggestions on 1st a network HDD system and second any software that might make it easier to accomplish?


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You'll want a NAS to store your local media. Synology or QNAP. Kodi on your client android boxes is the perfect software medium for local storage access and libraries.
 
pxr5 said:
You'll want a NAS to store your local media. Synology or QNAP. Kodi on your client android boxes is the perfect software medium for local storage access and libraries.
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Not sure what Qnap Synology are... I’m assuming any network hdd will work as the hardware? Can I buy this already setup?


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Tulloh said:
Not sure what Qnap Synology are... I’m assuming any network hdd will work as the hardware? Can I buy this already setup?


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Qnap & Synology are the market leaders in Network Attached Storage.
 
@Tulloh does your router have a USB port?
If so you can connect a HDD to that and share data on your LAN ( Local Area Network).

This is a cheaper option if you don't want to spend too much!
 
Tulloh said:
Thanks I went with the synology dds218
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More likely a ds218 (damn autocorrect amiright), although there are four models in that family.
Either way it's a two bay model so you'll most likely set it up using Synology Hybrid RAID and two identical hard drives. If your data is important elect for one disk fault tolerance, because you only have two HDDs you'll lose half your capacity but it's a question of when not if a hdd will fail. However much storage you think you'll need you are underestimating. Buy the largest drives you can reasonably afford, and definitely run a check on them before you start putting data on them.

And lastly remember raid is not backup, there are USB ports on the back for a reason. It's possible to buy a single bay synology nas and backup to that or plug a USB hdd into the back of your 2 bay, but if your data is important backup, backup, backup.
 
augur said:
More likely a ds218 (damn autocorrect amiright), although there are four models in that family.
Either way it's a two bay model so you'll most likely set it up using Synology Hybrid RAID and two identical hard drives. If your data is important elect for one disk fault tolerance, because you only have two HDDs you'll lose half your capacity but it's a question of when not if a hdd will fail. However much storage you think you'll need you are underestimating. Buy the largest drives you can reasonably afford, and definitely run a check on them before you start putting data on them.

And lastly remember raid is not backup, there are USB ports on the back for a reason. It's possible to buy a single bay synology nas and backup to that or plug a USB hdd into the back of your 2 bay, but if your data is important backup, backup, backup.
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Appreciate the feedback. Think I’ll do 2 4tb drives and use my 1 tbb wd portable as usb . I’m sure I’ll have questions so....


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So....got it setup, got it installed and running. I cannot however figure out how to install apps to it....


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