Looking for a networked storage / media solution?

May 5, 2010 by admin · 2 Comments
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gaph2000 asked:


So I’m making a home theatre setup, and want all of my movies and music to be on some networked storage solution that can be accessed through XBMC on my HTPC as sell as any other computers in the house. I also want to be able to access said movies through the Air Video app on my iPhone from anywhere. The storage solution will also have documents and such that I will want to be able to access anywhere from a computer.

So the way I see it, I can go with either a NAS or a Home Server.

With the NAS, it may be more reliable, as well as supposedly aster, due to the lack of a computer and instead being just HDDs connected to the network. But as far as I know, I will not be able to remotely access this from anywhere to retreive files. And if I want to use the Air Video app, it will need to be connected to a PC that is always on and running the Air Video software.

But with a Home Server, I get a free ____.homeserver.com domain name to access all of my files, as well as the ability to run the Air Video software directly on the Server. Unfortunately, I also have to deal with an OS, and there is less reliability, and apparently its slower? The only plus of there being an OS is being able to run programs, though I’ll only ever need the one program running (Air Video)

So what solution is better? On the Home Server, files I want to share on my network (to XBMC) I put in a shared folder, right? Does this type of setup work well with XBMC?

Which setup would you recommend, and either way, way specific hardware would you use for it?

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2 Responses to “Looking for a networked storage / media solution?”
  1. Colanth says:
    May 7, 2010 at 10:06 am

    You have to deal with an OS in either case - a NAS is just a computer with hard drives and a different OS. If you have a spare computer and a spare drive, you can download FreeNAS and see how it works for you. Colanth

  2. Jack says:
    May 7, 2010 at 12:06 pm

    sorry
    i have no idea
    but i will ask my friend for help Jack

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