What storage do you use with your XBMC Setup?

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Hello,

I'm new to XBMC and I was wondering if I get a revo which doesn't have much space for movies, what should I do regarding storage? what does everyone else do?


Is a Revo 3700 good enough for a XBMC htpc system and maybe occasional light browsing?
 
I just setup a Revo 3610 with 2 x External 2TB USB HDDs for storage, played everything with no problems at all.

The Revo has 8 USB ports so plenty of scope for adding more space when required :)
 
Revo R3610 here, I use the internal drive for my music, and all my films and TV are stored on an external drive
 
Should probably handle it fine.
I run XBMC-Live though soooo ;)

As for storage, atm I have a 5TB Windows Home Server that is being migrated to unRAID next week :D
 
I use a couple of 2TB WD NAS drives and stream to a Revo R3610 and an RL100 over homeplugs. Both Revos run Windows 7 and neither has a problem with XBMC or light browsing duties.
 
I use a XMBC fork, for OS X (called Plex). All media is stored on a DroboPro NAS. 12.29TB worth :D

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coughs said:
Can someone explain how do I get a NAS or do I need to buy another pc and run it as a server?
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NAS stands for Network Attached Storage. At the lower end of the market typically this will be a box with one or more hard disks in. As an interface it has a network port and typically will run a very lightweight Linux distribution to manage it.

You then plug the NAS into your network (or straight into ethernet ports on your router if you only have wireless) and you can browse it in Windows/Linux etc. as you can a server and map network drives to it.

You can get NASs that will connect via wireless and you can get adapters that can allow any ethernet device (including a wired NAS) to hook up to a wireless network.

As mentioned previously, I use homeplugs that effectively allow me to run a wired network over the mains and so place the NAS anywhere there is an electrical socket. No faster than wi-fi really but reliable I find.

You may ask why you want a NAS over an external USB drive. If you were to leave the HTPC with a USB drive on 24/7 then it doesn't offer much benefit, otherwise the primary reason is you can tuck it away somewhere and the storage is available to all your PCs and network aware devices. With a NAS you don't need a "server" unless you want to do other server-y things like email server, web server etc. Although some fo the NASs can do a few added things. Acting as a web server, FTP server and bit torrent client often can be done. My Western Digital MyBook can act as a newsgroup downloader which is very useful.
 
iwrox said:
I just setup a Revo 3610 with 2 x External 2TB USB HDDs for storage, played everything with no problems at all.

The Revo has 8 USB ports so plenty of scope for adding more space when required :)
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This tbh. However I think mine only has 6, 4 on the back and 2 o the front/top

coughs said:
Can the Revo get slow with windows 7 for htpc uses and light browsing?
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I've got a R3700 with 4bg RAM and 7 on it and it's fine. It plays 1080p in xbmc no probs and you can browse all day long and its fine.
 
BigT said:
I use a couple of 2TB WD NAS drives and stream to a Revo R3610 and an RL100 over homeplugs. Both Revos run Windows 7 and neither has a problem with XBMC or light browsing duties.
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Could you have an ordinary 2TB Ext. HDD connected to the USB of the WD NAS drive to achieve 4TB of NAS. Or does it not see it as one drive.
 
foreright said:
Could you have an ordinary 2TB Ext. HDD connected to the USB of the WD NAS drive to achieve 4TB of NAS. Or does it not see it as one drive.
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With the WD MyBook World that I have, yes you can, but only one drive. You couldn't hook up a USB hub and hang multiple drives off it - just the one.

For other brands\models you'd have to check.
 
2x1TB internal drives. I should probably move to a single small SSD and a single 2TB drive, as I hate having multiple partitions on one drive (running ubuntu, so first drive currently has three partitions).

Whilst NAS setups are nice and tidy, I leave my machine on 24/7 for sickbeard/sabnzbd/subsonic/ftp/fileserver duties, which a NAS simply can't provide.
 
I have an unRaid server with 8TB using a smb share over gigabit ethernet.
Also have a Synology DS210J with a few 2TB drives and external USB disks for random stuff and downloads etc, shared with XBMC.
 
uv said:
Whilst NAS setups are nice and tidy, I leave my machine on 24/7 for sickbeard/sabnzbd/subsonic/ftp/fileserver duties, which a NAS simply can't provide.
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Subsonic and Sickbeard no, but the rest are certainly possible even with basic NASs. However I will give you that the flexibility offered by a machine on 24/7 is very appealing for demanding users. Popular media 'server' apps like SlimServer and PS3server need a PC, and there are 101 other possibilities opened up by having a machine on 24/7. For example for me it would be quite useful to have my XBMC databases shared between all my boxes and that needs MySQL running, which while not impossible on my NAS, would be better served by a fully fledged PC.
 
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