The last HTPC Guides giveaway was a Banana Pi from Lemaker which Freya won. The first Media Server giveaway of 2017 is a Raspberry Pi 3 for the lucky winner sponsored by HTPC Guides.

The winner will receive the Raspberry Pi 3, a case, SD card with Minibian Jessie containing the HTPC Guides Media Server Installer and a 5V 2A power adapter. You will have everything you need to get started with setting up a powerful, low electricity footprint home media server. See these benchmarks for the kind of speeds you can expect from a Raspberry Pi 3 NAS.

Pi Unit Processor RAM RAM Bus Network WiFi USB SATA Cost Raspberry Pi 3 1.2 GHz ARMv8

Quad Core 1 GB DDR2 450 MHz 100 Mbit Yes 4 No $35 Raspberry Pi 2 900 MHz ARMv7

Quad Core 1 GB DDR2 450 MHz 100 Mbit No 4 No $35.00 Raspberry Pi 700 MHz ARMv6

Single Core 512 MB SDRAM 400 MHz 100 Mbit No 4 No $25 Banana Pi 1 GHz ARMv7

Dual Core 1 GB DDR3 432 MHz Gigabit No 2 Yes $36.99 Banana Pi Pro 1 GHz ARMv7

Dual Core 1 GB DDR3 432 MHz Gigabit Yes 2 Yes $45.00

Raspberry Pi 3 Media Server Giveaway

The HTPC Guides Raspberry Pi 3 Media Server Kit ($60-80 value) includes

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I will ship the kit anywhere in the world, the furthest a giveaway has traveled so far is to South Africa, you – the winner – do not pay for shipping!

Raspberry Pi 3 Media Server April Giveaway 2017

