NAS - just want to look before I leap

[htewam]

I am finally getting around to considering a stand-alone NAS to store/serve photos, music, video, etc. I've been using gbpvr for several years now (storing directly on my pc) but wasn't sure it it could handle recording from my Hauppauge capture cards (PVR-250 & HVR-1600) and storing directly to the remote NAS.

When I searched the wiki and the forum, I felt that I was getting some cross-information so I thought that I would ask directly.

Any key things I need to consider when moving towards a NAS?

Thanks

[liteswap]

If it's just being used as a multimedia store, get one with at least two drives, preferably four, and configure them as RAID 0. This gives you greater throughput, which is what you want, but no defence against disk failure - so back it up regularly.

Also, make sure you connect it using a wired gigabit Ethernet connection as a wireless connection may not give you the uninterrupted video stream you need due to interference.

There's plenty of other criteria but that's my tuppence-worth...

[ACTCMS]

I do a lot of playback (MP3 and SD Video) from various other PCs on my network (gigabit) and don't have any problems, but I always record to a local disk. Recording to a networked device (NAS or PC) only introduces a lot more possible points of failure AFAIC - the other device, network cables, router, etc.

Just another 2p worth though...

[steeb]

Personally I would go with ACTCMS' pov.

Everything except recordings I keep on a NAS (Music/Pictures/Videos/Archived recordings etc.)

Immediate GBPVR recordings go straight to an internal drive on the server, just seems like less to go wrong!

Once again just my 2pence

Cheers

Steeb

[pBS]

and you can use my simple archiver batch file to move them to nas manually from video library for individual shows..or setup script to move them automaticaly after epg update at night.. [postUpdateEPG.bat]
[link in my signature for supersimplearchiver]

[CornStopper]

Not tried recording irectly to a NAS, but have had on efore extra storage. Hva ehad no problem wit playback of AVI's simulatnrously when play with either AVI's or MP3's on multiple clients. Well one server and 2 clients.

But may well giving it a trial to record directly to NAS we will see.