Hey guys,
Not sure if this is the right place for this but I'm looking into putting together an alternative to my current storage set-up.
Current set-up:
Two laptops, one gaming rig (Q9300@3, HD4890, 320GB HD) and an HD HTPC (E8400, 4 HD tuners, 4 SD tuners, 9300 onboard, ~4TB HD space). The HTPC basically serves all of my media (iTunes, Recorded TV, HD Movies and TV). The result is that to keep my media available to my other computers, the HTPC stays on all the time. Not a terribly efficient system. Additionally, any torrenting happens on my gaming rig and is then uploaded to my HTPC, so that I don't have to muck around outside of the 7MC interface.
Future set-up 1:
Some sort of NAS that can be configured from another computer, that will look like a network drive on all of my machines, that uses very little energy, is very quiet, and will run torrents.
Future set-up 2:
A lite server build, probably Celeron or atom mini-itx, that runs ultra quiet, ultra efficient and does all of the above, while also allowing me to use it as my iTunes host, updating my podcasts automatically and working entirely headless.
Which would you guys recommend? I know that the NAS will probably be more energy efficient, but would it also cost more? Would it be able to run an iTunes client? What OS would i run the server as?
Thoughts?
Jason
Not sure if this is the right place for this but I'm looking into putting together an alternative to my current storage set-up.
Current set-up:
Two laptops, one gaming rig (Q9300@3, HD4890, 320GB HD) and an HD HTPC (E8400, 4 HD tuners, 4 SD tuners, 9300 onboard, ~4TB HD space). The HTPC basically serves all of my media (iTunes, Recorded TV, HD Movies and TV). The result is that to keep my media available to my other computers, the HTPC stays on all the time. Not a terribly efficient system. Additionally, any torrenting happens on my gaming rig and is then uploaded to my HTPC, so that I don't have to muck around outside of the 7MC interface.
Future set-up 1:
Some sort of NAS that can be configured from another computer, that will look like a network drive on all of my machines, that uses very little energy, is very quiet, and will run torrents.
Future set-up 2:
A lite server build, probably Celeron or atom mini-itx, that runs ultra quiet, ultra efficient and does all of the above, while also allowing me to use it as my iTunes host, updating my podcasts automatically and working entirely headless.
Which would you guys recommend? I know that the NAS will probably be more energy efficient, but would it also cost more? Would it be able to run an iTunes client? What OS would i run the server as?
Thoughts?
Jason