boxst

Hello

The wireless connection on my Xbox 360 was always a bit suspect (too far away from the wireless point) but I now use those amazing "its witchcraft I tell you" homeplugs and I get a steady very fast connection. Anyway, streaming movies and TV shows now works extremely well.

I would like a seperate computer to store all music, movies and be a back up for the rest of the computers. I'm assuming it doesn't have to be very powerful? All it is going to do is serve the datastream as opposed to do any of the processing itself. Is that right? Can I just use any old P2 or P3 kicking around?

Thanks,

Steve

Coffin Dodger

Have you thought about a NAS: QNAP TS-109 TS-209 TS-409 TS-509 @ QNAPStore.com

TopBanana

Hi, took a different approach and decided to store all my stuff with the media player. Ordered a popcornhour + 1TB disk for my xmas pressie.

HankScorpio

Nas is good (I have a 209 pro) but if you have a chassis kicking around, bung on linux and some disks and go for it. your bottleneck will always be your network, you're not going to tax it.
(think about extra cooling if using more than a couple of disks)

stevem2k

Unless you are doing any transcoding then as long as it's got a 100mb nic it should be gravy.

If it's going to store all your digital collections, then you may want to consider setting it up with software raid, these days its very simple.

..or buy a NAS...

boxst

I didn't think a NAS could be used with the Xbox to stream though?

(I thought it had to run Windows VIsta Server or XP)

Steve

HankScorpio

Thought the xbox was uPnP compliant? (could be wrong though)

Media server comes on nas and easily install on PC with pretty much any platform but would go linux if an older machine.

HankScorpio

Yeah, just checked - twonky comes on a number of nas devices and supports 360

TwonkyVision

boxst

So one of these would work?

Amazon.co.uk: BUFFALO - LinkStation Live HS-DH1000GL 1Tb Network Attached Storage (NAS): Electronics & Photo

Steve

HankScorpio

Don't think so, it's DLNA, not uPnP.

Dedrater

FreeNAS: The Free NAS Server - Home

spectrum48k

Ah, I knew I remembered someone looking for a NAS

What about something like this UPnP NAS ?
DLINK DNS-323 Network Storage 400GB & print server on eBay, also, Other Networking, Networking, Computing (end time 06-Dec-08 16:31:26 GMT)

TopBanana

I have an NSLU2 NAS device serving my xbox 360. You need to install unslung then ushare. Works a treat.