Hello,
I've been looking to set up a NAS/Media server to pipe media and files to our Xbox 360, laptops, and cell phones and after some significant research it looks like I've boiled it down to either going with an Atom 330 based system or an Intel Dual Core system running an E5200 2.5ghz processor. After that I plan on maxing out the RAM, using a couple of WD Caviar Green 1TB drives and running the whole rig on Ubuntu Server.
For the data storage and file transfer component, I'm fairly confident after reading the Atom based NAS articles here that the Atom 330 setup would be sufficient for my needs, but the one thing I'm not so sure about is the Media Server aspect. I plan on using Mediatomb to send out the media and am concerned that the Atom based processor will pretty much freeze up if any on the fly transcoding needs to be done.
Does anyone have experience using this type of setup to know what I can get away with? The price difference would end up being about $100 to go with the faster system, not to mention the power usage difference (8 watts for the 330 vs. 65 with the dual core)!
I'd love to hear anyone's feedback regarding the best route for this setup!
Thanks.
I've been looking to set up a NAS/Media server to pipe media and files to our Xbox 360, laptops, and cell phones and after some significant research it looks like I've boiled it down to either going with an Atom 330 based system or an Intel Dual Core system running an E5200 2.5ghz processor. After that I plan on maxing out the RAM, using a couple of WD Caviar Green 1TB drives and running the whole rig on Ubuntu Server.
For the data storage and file transfer component, I'm fairly confident after reading the Atom based NAS articles here that the Atom 330 setup would be sufficient for my needs, but the one thing I'm not so sure about is the Media Server aspect. I plan on using Mediatomb to send out the media and am concerned that the Atom based processor will pretty much freeze up if any on the fly transcoding needs to be done.
Does anyone have experience using this type of setup to know what I can get away with? The price difference would end up being about $100 to go with the faster system, not to mention the power usage difference (8 watts for the 330 vs. 65 with the dual core)!
I'd love to hear anyone's feedback regarding the best route for this setup!
Thanks.