Soldato
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I am faced with three possibilites at the minute:
1. Build a home server and install WHS, making the computers in the household clients.
2. Buy a NAS of some description, Raid 1+0 for redundancy
3. Build a FreeNAS system to do the same.
All I really want is centrallised redundant storage that can look after all of our pictures, stream HD movies and audio to my htpc and is reasonably robust against failure. I like the idea of having each PC as a client with my profile centralised, meaning that any pc I log on to will be as I want it, but how would this work with a media centre and XBMC?
Would NAS be a better option, and if so, FreeNas vs an off the shelf unit, which is better?
God this is confusing lol!
1. Build a home server and install WHS, making the computers in the household clients.
2. Buy a NAS of some description, Raid 1+0 for redundancy
3. Build a FreeNAS system to do the same.
All I really want is centrallised redundant storage that can look after all of our pictures, stream HD movies and audio to my htpc and is reasonably robust against failure. I like the idea of having each PC as a client with my profile centralised, meaning that any pc I log on to will be as I want it, but how would this work with a media centre and XBMC?
Would NAS be a better option, and if so, FreeNas vs an off the shelf unit, which is better?
God this is confusing lol!