2013-09-20, 14:46
Hi,
Been researching NAS for a long time but have finally bit the bullet and going to spend some $$$ on getting one. I was almost sold on a QNAP 8 bay NAS but then discovered the U-nas NSC-800 enclosure.
This is currently perfect for my situation as I will be using 8 3TB drives or 4TB depending how much I want to unload in the end, I basically want to run in RAID 6 or similar from NAS software such as freenas etc but looking for advice in relation to this. The perfect situation for me would be the ability run a NAS software aswell as XBMC so i can just plug it directly into the TV rather then using a dedicated HTPC aswell as this new build. I don't require a TV tuner etc or anything like that.
Is anybody able to assist and point me in the right direction to run XBMC from one of these free NAS OS's? If its not possible I can easily run Windows 7 and use NAS software in a virtual enviroment
Any inputs on hardware would be greatly appreciated aswell , most likely going go run with AMD on 8GB RAM so there should be no issues with 1080p (:
Been researching NAS for a long time but have finally bit the bullet and going to spend some $$$ on getting one. I was almost sold on a QNAP 8 bay NAS but then discovered the U-nas NSC-800 enclosure.
This is currently perfect for my situation as I will be using 8 3TB drives or 4TB depending how much I want to unload in the end, I basically want to run in RAID 6 or similar from NAS software such as freenas etc but looking for advice in relation to this. The perfect situation for me would be the ability run a NAS software aswell as XBMC so i can just plug it directly into the TV rather then using a dedicated HTPC aswell as this new build. I don't require a TV tuner etc or anything like that.
Is anybody able to assist and point me in the right direction to run XBMC from one of these free NAS OS's? If its not possible I can easily run Windows 7 and use NAS software in a virtual enviroment
Any inputs on hardware would be greatly appreciated aswell , most likely going go run with AMD on 8GB RAM so there should be no issues with 1080p (: