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Cloud based storage
Do we really need NAS's these days when you can stream everything through Netflix, Spotify etc?
- Thread starter R.O.S.S.I
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Good point. Mine is my HTPC with 3 physical drives so not strictly a NAS. The point is I use it for a lot more than storage
Media centre obviously
Plex media server (for the ios devices in the house or for when we are away)
Minecraft server
Team Speak Server
I did try netflix for a while but the movie choice is just shocking. The timings need to be on par with retail releases at the very least for me to be interested again (did the media industry really learn nothing from the early days of mp3?)
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Some of us like good quality media... rather than the compressed ****e you get through those mentioned services.
I love my NAS, I'd never trade it for the online services
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Screen Shot 2014-08-12 at 10.33.30 by CosmicLogos, on Flickr2x 4x 4TB Raid-5
1x 2x 3TB Raid-1
5x 3TB JBOD
1x 1TB OS drive
+ 5TB in HTPC
+ a few TB I can't connect due to running out of SATA ports... will grab a controller when I can be bothered...
Ooops...
Still moving files around, that movies share will be nearly full soon.
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Can't beat a local collection. The content is yours...forever...until you die .No bankruptcy. No price increases.
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All these points for me. It irks me when i have good quality floorstanders and surround speakers yet my AV receiver or speakers aren't being used to their full potential, so i go with high quality 5.1 / 7.1 local media stored on hdd's.
It amazes me how many people spend a grand on a telly, yet they only use their crappy tv speakers or some crap £150 HTIB system. The way i see it is, if you spend that amount of dosh on the picture, do it justice and have good audio along with high quality content to watch. Why settle for less
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Totally agree. My home theatre setup is by no means top grade (costing less than £6000... I think), but I know that it will only sound as good as it can, if I feed it the absolute best quality. I stream absolutely nothing from outside my own NAS/Server setup, and that's how it will stay. I've got an Enigma2 satellite, so anything I record and want to keep, is just transferred straight onto the NAS for future playback.
NAS just makes things more flexible with your own content, I mean, configure it right, and you can stream your own stuff around the world, so you can take it all on holiday with you.
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I've yet to see a streaming service with decent enough quality to replace other sources.
I'd rather have an average TV and killer speakers than the other way around.
But it wasn't until I got my first floorstanders I was converted
Bigger outlay than the tv
Amp + 5 speakers (or 7) + sub + cable + hours of searching
But they last. And hold their value more
I see it same as spending 2k on a tri gpu pc and bunging on a monitor half the price of one gpu
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Yes.
I've used a few and Netflix is the only one that can reliably give me a 720p stream, providing nobody else is using the internet at the time. It'd be great if these services would allow you to pre-buffer or download but I guess they have no need to.
I know this feel. The quality of netflix per mb download is far better than iplayer and 4oD.
The only reason I used shared storage is for downloads of videos etc because my connection is crap.
You really don't want to be reliant on a streaming service that could vanish into the ether at any point in time, and is subject to your internet connection working properly. Cloud based storage is good as an additional backup in the event of a fire or flood, it's not suitable as a primary storage method because it's out of your control.