On 03/06/2018 22:04, Dave Liquorice wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Jun 2018 13:54:35 +0000 (UTC), Martin Gregorie wrote:
>
>> A more important consideration: how much storage does your audio
>> collection need? If less than 120 GB, a single 128GB SD card should hold
>> both the RPI software and your music. This is the simplest approach, but
>> will cost you about £50-55.
>
> Personally I'd keep the OS and media library on different drives.
> Makes switching OS or upgrading far less painless.
>
>> Above that size you'll need to use a SATA SSD or hard drive, so add on
>> the cost of a USB-SATA adapter and enclosure.
>
> I have Pi 2 running Kodi, so mostly HD video streams rather than
> tiddly little audio ones. The library is stored a 2 GByte USB3
> portable hardrive. Not a problem playing back. Finding a PSU that has
> the grunt to meet the demands of the Pi booting and the HD spining up
> was the tricky bit, needs about 3.5 A. The GUI is a bit slow on a
> Pi2, one day I'll try the Pi3+ I have.
>

I've had Kodi/OSMC running on B+, 3 and 3+. Believe me, switching to the
3+ was really worth it. 2x DVB-T, 1x DVB-T2 and 1x 5Tb Seagate Expansion
Drive. Plus it runs DNSMasq, Lighttpd (was Apache, but I didn't need the
power of Apache). Standard RPi power supply.


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Chris Elvidge, England

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