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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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NAS vs External HDD for this use case? (alien.top)

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Hi all, noob question here:

Setting up a Mini PC with Linux to act as my Plex server, as well being my point to store/download media. I currently plan to have an external drive connected to the mini PC where everything will be stored - only 4TB so not much on it's own but for now more than plenty for me. One thing though is that I would like to at times be able to download directly from other computers running Windows directly to the external drive connected to Linux. Do I need a NAS for this, or can I set it up in such a way that Linux will make it available to my Windows computers?

For what it's worth, while the server and HDD will run most of the time, there will be extended periods where I am able to shut down both Mini PC and HDD, so it doesn't need to be truly 24/7.

Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Linux can run Samba, which allows windows to mount a drive to a shared linux directory.

A NAS would also work with the Windows computer, but might take more steps to access from linux.