Hello,
In my current configuration, the main computer is holding all the media files that I access on daily basis. I want to free up his job and create a separate media storage based on a thin client running OMV. As a future application I would like to use it also as a media streamer, but it's not a must. There are two possible candidates for this task, for one of them there is already a build available : Dell Optiplex FX160 Thin Client. The other one, which I could get for almost the same price is a Wyse (Dell) D90D7. This one has better hardware specs (AMD G-T48E 1.4 GHz + Radeon HD6250 GPU - 2 GB Ram- 16 GB Flash) but was worries me is the lack of available SATA ports, or the possibility to adapt one. The flash drive stays in a SATA port, but this one should be used for the OMV. The only free port is a mPCIe used for the wireless card, but that would mean I need to use an adapter for my 500Gb drive, which could slow down it's performance. As for the FX160 the mPCIe port is blocked only for Wlan cards.
Does anybody have experience with this or similar hardware? Or maybe other suggestions in this matter?
Thanks,
Rudolf