Advice on my next upgrades - help/advice would be great :)

hitman

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At the moment I have a AMD Phenom II X4 955, 4GB RAM and a newly acquired Samsung EVO 250GB SSD/1TB Mechanical hard drive. I also have Lenovo X200T which I've fitted with a 128 GB Crucial M4 SSD.

I mainly use my desktop for Office based work, some work with Dragon Naturally Speaking Voice recognition and in the past some video editing.

My laptop is mainly used for Office based tasks.

The need to back up my files has led me in the direction of a NAS/home server. If I go down this route, am I right in thinking that I can remove any large hard drives from my desktop and simply place in the NAS? This would leave my desktop with the SSD, motherboard, RAM, graph and processor? Do I leave the graphics and sound cards here?

I want to have quite a high powered desktop as thinking of moving into some more creative work via Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop etc), Camtasia Studio (screencasting software which requires video editing) and also for Dragon which requires lots of L3 cache.

Am I right in thinking that I could access my network via my laptop and tap into the high power of the desktop allowing me to buy a Surface 2 rather than a Surface Pro 2 (only disadvantage I can see would then be absence of a pen).

I would also possibly like to be able to stream music and video from the NAS throughout my house.

I know that'bs all a bit long winded, but am I on the right line? Is all of the above possible? What are my options for the above without audio/video streaming and with audio/video streaming? What sort of cost would I be looking at?

Cheers :)
 
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Nas is the route you need to go, but i would not recomend taking your desktop hdd out and placing it in the nas, as it might get wiped if it uses a different File system, Buy either new drives of a nas that comes complete.

somethign like free nas will allow you to stream your music aroud the house, im sure there are other out the boxes that will support the features you require.
 
Thanks for the advice.
Will start looking at NAS - either a Synology 213j or build my own...any idea where I can read up on the sort of specs I would need to power a NAS box?
 
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Looked at the HP micro server before, but think there is more than One model, so which to go for? Also read of people carrying out extensive upgrades after purchase, which sounds expensive! Is the cash back offer still available on this ?
 
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