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Ie if I built a storage computer to stream off, guess they only called a nas? Or is that a specific machine? , and put all my movies on it, at this point I assume kodi Xbmc streams, would it make things better than just leaving or at times connecting my laptop enclosed drive to link the folder for kodi?
 
You can do it with a NAS, but if you want to do it properly then build a small home server and put Plex on it. Then come back here in 6 months and thank me profusely for the suggestion.

Plex kicks all kinds of crap out of any other streaming solution. It's basically your own personal Netflix (particularly if you have fibre, in which case you can use it when away from home too!)
 
Audigex said:
You can do it with a NAS, but if you want to do it properly then build a small home server and put Plex on it. Then come back here in 6 months and thank me profusely for the suggestion.

Plex kicks all kinds of crap out of any other streaming solution. It's basically your own personal Netflix (particularly if you have fibre, in which case you can use it when away from home too!)
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Brian18741 said:
I have something like the below, previous model. I can connect to it anywhere and stream whatever I have on it to mobile or laptop etc. Very handy!

YOUR BASKET
1 x Western Digital MY CLOUD 3TB 3.5" Desktop NAS Ethernet External Hard Drive (WDBCTL0030HWT-EESN) £149.99
Total : £149.99 (includes shipping : Ex.VAT).

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Sorry for the hijack. Can you run RAID setup for safety (2 drives mirrored in case one fails) with one of these? It's deffo something I'd like to get at some point soon. Ta :)
 
Audigex said:
You can do it with a NAS, but if you want to do it properly then build a small home server and put Plex on it. Then come back here in 6 months and thank me profusely for the suggestion.

Plex kicks all kinds of crap out of any other streaming solution. It's basically your own personal Netflix (particularly if you have fibre, in which case you can use it when away from home too!)
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Can you spec such a thing?
 
I could, although if you just want a basic setup it's far easier to just get a HP Microserver when the cashback offer is on. It's not the cheapest setup ever, but it's pretty damn good. Should cost you roughly £200 (without disks) after cashback for the Celeron setup, although you'll likely want to upgrade the memory for another £20-30.

Alternately the following should be better for streaming, having a quad core CPU. It won't be quite as easy on the power consumption as the microserver, but it should manage at least 2 HD streams concurrently (the microserver tends to struggle with more than 1 at a time. It's about the same price as the Microserver if the cashback deal isn't on, at £300 (without disks).

Note: this has been thrown together in about 90 seconds, so I can't promise it's the best thought out setup or that I've not missed anything! I also have no idea whether that case takes a full size ATX PSU

You'd need to add at least a couple of disks (£80 for 1TB mirrored), and I'd probably add a 30-60GB SSD for the OS, if you can justify one on your budget

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4440 3.10GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £152.99
1 x Antec ISK600M mATX Cube Case - Black £56.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX316C10FBK2/8) £37.99
1 x MSI H81M-E33 Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £34.99
1 x Antec VP350P 350W 85% Efficient Continuous Power Supply £26.99
Total : £309.95 (includes shipping : Ex.VAT).



I have no idea why OcUK don't sell something like this as a home server setup
 
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Plex is a really good option, I used it and it was just running of a cheap VPS.
I don't think that the PC running Plex needs to be very powerful at all and you can probably just use some old PC parts that you have lieing around (if you have any), whack CentOS (linux) onto it, buy a couple of storage drives and you are good to go. Unless you are streaming 10 different films at the same time Plex is not very demanding.
 
Audigex said:
I could, although if you just want a basic setup it's far easier to just get a HP Microserver when the cashback offer is on. It's not the cheapest setup ever, but it's pretty damn good. Should cost you roughly £200 (without disks) after cashback for the Celeron setup, although you'll likely want to upgrade the memory for another £20-30.

Alternately the following should be better for streaming, having a quad core CPU. It won't be quite as easy on the power consumption as the microserver, but it should manage at least 2 HD streams concurrently (the microserver tends to struggle with more than 1 at a time. It's about the same price as the Microserver if the cashback deal isn't on, at £300 (without disks).

Note: this has been thrown together in about 90 seconds, so I can't promise it's the best thought out setup or that I've not missed anything! I also have no idea whether that case takes a full size ATX PSU

You'd need to add at least a couple of disks (£80 for 1TB mirrored), and I'd probably add a 30-60GB SSD for the OS, if you can justify one on your budget

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4440 3.10GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £152.99
1 x Antec ISK600M mATX Cube Case - Black £56.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX316C10FBK2/8) £37.99
1 x MSI H81M-E33 Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £34.99
1 x Antec VP350P 350W 85% Efficient Continuous Power Supply £26.99
Total : £309.95 (includes shipping : Ex.VAT).



I have no idea why OcUK don't sell something like this as a home server setup
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v3llr said:
Plex is a really good option, I used it and it was just running of a cheap VPS.
I don't think that the PC running Plex needs to be very powerful at all and you can probably just use some old PC parts that you have lieing around (if you have any), whack CentOS (linux) onto it, buy a couple of storage drives and you are good to go. Unless you are streaming 10 different films at the same time Plex is not very demanding.
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Thanks dudes, food for thought!
 
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