Local hard drive remote access

[Miss Sissy Princess]

I'm too cheap/lazy to want to do that, plus the wifi in the Raspberry Pi is pretty piss poor - to say nothing of the problem of connecting an ethernet cable to a Pi Zero W. My solution was to use ethernet-over-lan from the router elsewhere in the house to a mains socket in the same room as the Pi, and connect that to an unused old modem/router from a previous broadband contract.

It's great that a Pi Zero W can run moOde, but the modest $25 delta between a Pi Zero W and a Pi 4B makes the Pi 4B the only choice for me (I don't want to nickel and dime this to death; so let's skip the 'I can power the Zero W with my old phone charger' type of stuff). 

For that $25, I get gigabit Ethernet and an order of magnitude higher computing performance, and that makes a huge, real-world difference in everything from moOde GUI responsiveness to music library updates.  





(the above from The MagPi Magazine:  https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/articles/r...benchmarks)

Again, I'm only writing based on my priorities and budget.  I'm not looking down on anyone who, for whatever reason, simply can't afford or justify the higher cost of a Pi 4 moOde build.  But if the cost isn't a barrier, there are some very strong arguments to be made in favor of going with a Pi 4B over a Zero W.

Note:  The pair of graphs I included were just to give a very general sense of the differences in computing power between the Pi Zero W and the Pi 4B.  I'm not suggesting that either, or both, are exactly predictive of moOde performance on each of the boards.