QNAP, a good NAS for use with XBMC?

I agree and the 419 may be perfectly fine for turbinez. However I keep finding additional services to centralize on my qnap. For example minecraft, MySQL, sickbeard, sabnzbd and soon couchpotato and headphones. Eventually I hope to run xbmc headless on the qnap and would hate it if I couldn't because I chose the wrong architecture.

I use a QNAP 219P and a HP Proliant MicroServer running unRaid as my media servers at home. The QNAP mainly does all the services (as in Sickbeard, etc...) and archives TV Series that are still airing, the unRaid ist the final storage for movies and TV shows. The main reason I added the unRaid is the better expandability (that's one advice I would like to give: buy a QNAP with enough(!) bays).

That said we use a lot of QNAP products in our company and never had problems with these...they work very well out of the box and QNAPs package system is quite nice to expand them (even providing an optware package for more possibilities)...

Thanks guys, not sure if ARM vs x86 architecture would make a big difference in a home environment. Seems like it doesn't so I'll stick to the TS-419.

So let me verify this. When you buy a QNAP server and insert a brand new HDD, Qnap will automatically recognize the filesystem and use it right away without having to format the drive first?

(2012-04-25 09:16)turbinez Wrote:  So let me verify this. When you buy a QNAP server and insert a brand new HDD, Qnap will automatically recognize the filesystem and use it right away without having to format the drive first?

Yes.

By default the QNAP comes with some standard shares already set up e.g. \\qnapname\public. You can just use these or you can use the web interface to create a new share with a name you like.

(2012-04-25 09:16)turbinez Wrote:  So let me verify this. When you buy a QNAP server and insert a brand new HDD, Qnap will automatically recognize the filesystem and use it right away without having to format the drive first?

To be very exact: if you insert a brand new HDD the QNAP will format it for you. You can't use a brand new (unformatted) HDD without having a file system on it. If you mean that you don't have to do it yourself, then yes, you will insert the new HDD into the QNAP and you are up and running after a short configuration process (during which the QNAP will prepare the drives for you). Keep in mind though that creating a RAID5 array takes quite a while...

Hi,

I have Qnap 509 pro which i have been using for years now, but anything that can do SMB, NFS, ZFS and some more will work. but if you would like a all in one solution i can recommend either the Qnap or Synology.

I have have 8 bays in my home Windows 7 PC in Raid 5 which i have shared out using NFS, you can even build your own nas drive.

Thanks