SVN repository for personal media?

Question

CVS

Is it possible to organize storage in this way?

A repository cannot be created, for example, if there is nothing to install the SVN server on (in this case, there is just disk space, without the OS installed on it).
The solution should be as transportable as possible, quiet and energy efficient. That is, the option with raising the overall and lazy server disappears.
UPD: Perhaps I am not using the correct terminology when using the word "router". But speaking humanly, you need something that allows you to store data (or make it possible to connect an external hard drive via USB) with access to them over the network, and provide version control.
Well, let's say the ability to control data versions greatly complicates => increases the cost of the solution. Then, in principle, you can refuse this condition.

Answer 1

If nothing can be put on the router, but there is access from the outside to the file system of the router, then you can connect the repository as “local”, without the need to install an SVN server (TortoiseSVN can do this)
And the server does not have to be overall, noisy and gluttonous. For example Dlink DIR-320, there is a USB connector and Linux inside.

Answer 2

this is a perversion, IMHO. You probably won't be able to get a normal svn.

Answer 3

WD had something similar with external hard drives - the ability to create backups and work via the Internet.

Answer 4

As rightly noted,

the server does not have to be large, noisy and gluttonous

The hardware part of your solution, even in the basic version = computer (in the general sense, a computer, that is) + media. Better and easier than a ready-made NAS or a router with USB and an external screw is unlikely to be found. There is nothing to cheapen and simplify here.
So, it would be logical to see what parts of your task are already implemented in ready-made NAS and in open firmware for routers (openwrt, dd-wrt) or for NAS (freenas).

1. Easier and better than a NAS or a USB router + disk is unlikely to work.
2. For "simple" access to storage over the network - the keyword: iSCSI.
3. In commercial solutions, the same WD, as, again, it was noted, has options with backup and remote access to your data. It is only necessary in each specific case to check whether it is necessary to pay for it from above, and whether crazy software is needed on the client machine.
4. To pick up anything on a box in which a * nix-compatible OS is spinning is just a matter of free time. Ready-made solutions and the experience of colleagues are already with you.