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I have my main PC in my spare bedroom with desk.
(Fractal XL case, i5 4690k, 8gb, 670gtx, 2x SSDs and 3x1TB HDD's). This system has drives in it that contain at least 15years of my life, music, pictures etc.
In recent months/years I seem to have drifted from sitting at a PC and gaming, it happens but rarely.
I am currently exploring the lounge PC idea, I have an old HP slimline (2.0ghz core2duo, 2gb, Vista) which I bought a HD6450 to get HDMI and connect to my TV. I've set up Kodi and have copied all my music collection over. Steam streaming works really well and the HD6450 will run a few basic titles. Definately enjoy the lounge gaming and media experience, it almost motivates me to go use the main PC and desk for more KB+mouse suited games.
I really want to centralise all my media and files, for backup and streaming purposes. I feel like i'm burning money turning on my main PC just to be able to access all my music and other media. I don't mind if using it's grunt to run and stream games to the lounge. I might even downsize the main PC, keep it simple.
Would a NAS suit my situation? Or an updated lounge PC build that could be always on and have all of my media on it for my laptop and PC to access?
I know little about networking, copying files from my main PC to the lounge PC often maxes at 8mb/s which seems slow if I was to use a NAS which Kodi would be using as a library?
Using homeplugs and a Sky Superhub so not sure what the bottleneck is or if this means it wouldn't be worth exploring the NAS option without upgrading the router?
Just looking for ideas as I know nothing about NAS's, networks and centralising media.
David
(Fractal XL case, i5 4690k, 8gb, 670gtx, 2x SSDs and 3x1TB HDD's). This system has drives in it that contain at least 15years of my life, music, pictures etc.
In recent months/years I seem to have drifted from sitting at a PC and gaming, it happens but rarely.
I am currently exploring the lounge PC idea, I have an old HP slimline (2.0ghz core2duo, 2gb, Vista) which I bought a HD6450 to get HDMI and connect to my TV. I've set up Kodi and have copied all my music collection over. Steam streaming works really well and the HD6450 will run a few basic titles. Definately enjoy the lounge gaming and media experience, it almost motivates me to go use the main PC and desk for more KB+mouse suited games.
I really want to centralise all my media and files, for backup and streaming purposes. I feel like i'm burning money turning on my main PC just to be able to access all my music and other media. I don't mind if using it's grunt to run and stream games to the lounge. I might even downsize the main PC, keep it simple.
Would a NAS suit my situation? Or an updated lounge PC build that could be always on and have all of my media on it for my laptop and PC to access?
I know little about networking, copying files from my main PC to the lounge PC often maxes at 8mb/s which seems slow if I was to use a NAS which Kodi would be using as a library?
Using homeplugs and a Sky Superhub so not sure what the bottleneck is or if this means it wouldn't be worth exploring the NAS option without upgrading the router?
Just looking for ideas as I know nothing about NAS's, networks and centralising media.
David