Quote Originally Posted by MadMouser View Post
My NAS is separate from my HTPC, and in a different room to keep noise down. The HTPC is in a small case with very few lights to distract. It's a pretty minimal build, done that way on purpose. A Sandy Bridge G840, Radeon discrete GPU, 4 gig ram, Win 7 + XBMC. The NAS is a CentOS box with 8 2tb drives in a software RAID-6, XFS. I've got 11tb usable storage, about 50% full now. All DVDs are full disc ISOs. BluRays are MKVs of the main movie track only. Everything streams just fine over gig-e.
That is sort of what I'm looking to do. The first case is what I want in the living room using the TV as the monitor. The second case would be the NAS.

But NAS is something new to me. I have book coming in but I have found they rarely cover the little issues that can happen.

Jim