homescripts VS DietPi

Dropbox also has an unlimited plan. There’s a repo created by an rclone mod detailing his setup here https://github.com/animosity22/homescripts

I used this as reference and was able to translate it to gdrive: https://github.com/animosity22/homescripts

I'd suggest looking at animosity22 github, he is well known in the rclone community, I would also highly recommend going to the rclone forums for more help.

https://github.com/animosity22/homescripts Here is his github page. After it starts there is 0 buffering.

Then you would use a cronjob similar to this one https://github.com/animosity22/homescripts

The de facto standard for mounting remote locations via RClone for Plex is Animosity22’s scripts: https://github.com/animosity22/homescripts

You can base your setup on this. I use it and it's great https://github.com/animosity22/homescripts the author recently changed gdrive to dropbox, but the setup is going to be the same one, just the rclone backend will change. This assumes that you would need to use a Linux box. Just an extra option if you want to go that route.

With all of that said, take a look at https://github.com/animosity22/homescripts for a good starting point.

DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems, with the option to install desktop environments, too. It ships as minimal image but allows to install complete and ready-to-use software stacks with a set of console based shell dialogs and scripts.

The source code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi

That's a good point, but the array of devices supported by the DietPi team is extensive: https://dietpi.com/

Before someone starts the usual yadda yadda about the RPi biger community, the OS not having long time support etc. I would repeat one more time: do not rely on board vendor supplied images; this is valid for pretty much all boards. Just go to Armbian or DietPi pages and you'll almost certainly find one or more images that work on your board and forums to discuss about them with very knowledgeable people.

https://www.armbian.com/download/

https://dietpi.com/#download

Those projects are well worth a contribution, as they don't have a giant like Broadcom behind them.

> bananapi do a lot of boards but their software story has been a bit poor

This is quite common with other board manufacturers too. I'd rather suggest to ignore completely their cobbled together distros, often also tainted by proprietary modifications, that become unmaintained in a few years, and see if they're among the many supported by Armbian or DietPi.

https://www.armbian.com/download/

https://dietpi.com/#download

The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v8_25/

RPi OS = diet pi https://dietpi.com/ - initial config via text file - SDcard burning out partially mitigated as writes log files to ram then flushes to SDcard reducing write cycles

You could also try very minimalistic distros like TwisterUI or DietPi which are most known for their use in the RasprebbyPi / SBC computers but which also have editions for desktop / laptop.