hi, just after some advice on what NAS i should go for to complete my home setup.
I have wired my house with cat6 cable and have network points all over the house. I have a couple imacs, which i would like to back up to the nas via time machine. I will also have 3 sono's amps which will run off a itunes server on the NAS. I also like the idea of being able to access my data via this "cloud" setup you can get on the NAS drives.
In my house I will be streaming movies to apple tv's and as above music to the sono's.
I have been tempted by the qnaps as the software does everything i need and seems to look quite smart. I am worried about speed as i did read a review about some one saying they struggled to steam 720 movies, but i dont know if this was via wifi and i think it was on a qnap 419 pro or similar.
Other option is to build a NAS and run freenas on. I have space to have a full tower with ATX instead of a mini ATX. But unsure what motherboard to go for and power supply and would a i3 be overkill? and which other kit would i need? The main advantage i can see with building my own is the ease of adding more HD's.
So with the freenas i would need it to do a itunes server, steam movies to hacked apple tvs with xbmc, allow me to back up with time machine and a "cloud" based service.
Also would i be best having a raid setup?
Hope this makes sense, so any advice would be great in what the best solution should be for me.
thanks
I have wired my house with cat6 cable and have network points all over the house. I have a couple imacs, which i would like to back up to the nas via time machine. I will also have 3 sono's amps which will run off a itunes server on the NAS. I also like the idea of being able to access my data via this "cloud" setup you can get on the NAS drives.
In my house I will be streaming movies to apple tv's and as above music to the sono's.
I have been tempted by the qnaps as the software does everything i need and seems to look quite smart. I am worried about speed as i did read a review about some one saying they struggled to steam 720 movies, but i dont know if this was via wifi and i think it was on a qnap 419 pro or similar.
Other option is to build a NAS and run freenas on. I have space to have a full tower with ATX instead of a mini ATX. But unsure what motherboard to go for and power supply and would a i3 be overkill? and which other kit would i need? The main advantage i can see with building my own is the ease of adding more HD's.
So with the freenas i would need it to do a itunes server, steam movies to hacked apple tvs with xbmc, allow me to back up with time machine and a "cloud" based service.
Also would i be best having a raid setup?
Hope this makes sense, so any advice would be great in what the best solution should be for me.
thanks