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Donkey_Kong:

--- Quote from: cotmm68030 on June 06, 2011, 10:53:47 am ---I've been building my media library at home and have been very pleased with Synology's products. I've got a 5-drive enclosure at work for doing network-wide backups (and some media serving) and another 1 drive enclosure at home for media and backup.

They have a built in http/ftp/nzb/emule/bittorrent client, and there are several Android/iPhone apps to manage downloads remotely.
Also supports DLNA for announcing to TVs and PS3s and whatever. I havn't played with this too much, but most things play fine over the network to my Samsung Galaxy Tab.

Here's a 4 bay:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822108066

Paired with 4 of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152245

So for around $700 you could have close to 8TB of networked storage, or close to 6TB with redundancy in the case of a single drive failure (swap it out and keep going). If a full Bluray is 56GB, and you went with the redundant storage setup, that's still over 100 movies.


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That's pretty impressive, all around!

newmanfamilyvlogs:
It gets even more impressive if you jump through some hoops and install Serviio on it:
http://pcloadletter.co.uk/2011/02/07/serviio-on-synology-nas-with-arm-cpu/

It's running a proper Linux distribution so you can do all sorts of crap with it.

Serviio is a TRANSCODING DLNA server which means if your device supports only MP2 video and MP3 audio in a VOB container, but all your source media is h.264/AAC in MKV containers, you can have the little box transcode it to your device in real time at playback. Same thing with audio. Rip all your CDs to FLAC and have it transcode to 320kbit MP3s to play back on your networked stereo, and 128kbit MP3s to stream on your networked TV.

boykster:
Cool project.  I use XBMC on 2 small atom/ion based machines and have linux based storage array using more traditional hardware RAID cards.  If I was to do it again, that Synology box looks very appealing from a cost / scalability standpoint. 

I'm a big fan of XBMC because it is open source and very configurable, but the MCE solutions are pretty slick as well I have to say.  If you're made of money and don't want to tinker at all, check out Kaleidescape

http://www.kaleidescape.com/

but since most of us DON'T have unlimited budgets, MCE or XBMC are great approaches to getting a similar experience for a fraction of the cost.

DrumAnBass:
+1 for XBMC as a front end; amazed at how good it is... http://xbmc.org/

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