A server for media & work

[Azza]

So I'm thinking about setting up a server of multiple uses and it's either a NAS (Synology) or DIY'ing it with a N54L or something.

Now I need something to store all my media on (1080p mkvs, photos, music), run the usual sab, couch & sickbeard, be able to store work documents and essentially work from the server while the documents are backed up to OneDrive and Dropbox. And photos to Box would be nice as well.

At the moment I have a few TB of media that's all on my PC and it's becoming a bit of a pain waiting for stuff to copy to USB so it can be played on the TV. So PMS and a Roku 3 seem like the ideal solution to this.

I'm sure most of this could be done (apart from maybe working from within the server) with a NAS but if I wanted to go down the N54L what OS('s) or combination of software would be the best way to go about it?


Thanks.

 

[Azza]

Been playing with Xpenology in a virtual box and it seems to do pretty much everything that I would want it to. Needs to be quite user friendly and easy to access as my girlfriend would be using it for her work mostly, so needs to look nice.


Would a N54L be able to handle 1080p MKVs to 3 x Roku 3's of which 2 are remote and 1 local at the same time?

edit ----->

Just remembered why I stopped using PMS on my PC (just reinstalled it) I get a shocking memory leak when manually updating my libaries to the point where windows asks to close programs.

 

[Azza]

Xpenology it is then.