[n1ck2421]

Hi,

I'm in the market to purchase a NAS for my DVD and BluRay backups.
I'm looking at the QNAP TS 409 Pro and the QNAP TS-419P models.

QNAP TS 409 Pro ($429 US on Amazon)
http://www.amazon.com/Hot-swappable-Embe...294&sr=8-3

QNAP TS-419P ($599 US on NewEgg)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...-_-Product

Was wondering if I go with the cheaper QNAP TS 409 Pro would I have any peformance issues with DVD or Bluray using a SMB share?

My switch is gigabit which the QNAP will be connected to.

I'm also looking to purchase a Acer Revo for my TV.
I have wireless N router, and was planning on using the wireless function of the revo once I install ubuntu on it to connect to the QNAP.

Any additonal information or suggestions would be appeciated.

Thank You
Nick

[popper]

I have the TS 409 Pro, no problems whatsoever using SMB Share.
I have streamed 720p via 802.11g fine.

In my opinion the main bottleneck is the router/connection rather than the NAS itself. I don't think you need much processing power inside the NAS to serve and stream the files.

Haven't tried 1080p. I suspect 802.11n or wired network would take care of that easily.

PS. I am also looking at an aspire revo for a media center.
My main concern is getting real encoded DD/DTS audio from it as it has no optical audio out.

[n1ck2421]

Thanks Popper.

Woudln't the hdmi output on the revo take care of the dd/dts audio?

Would a second generation asrock work out better?
Not sure where your located, but the asrock gen 2 isnt available in the US yet.


Thanks,
Nick

[popper]

Yes, I've just recently been reading around
and the HDMI appears to be 1.3 capable of carrying the audio signal as well.

My main concern now is the power to play 1080p with acceleration (Been reading alot of people are having trouble)

I'm based in OZ, I admin I don't know anything about the Asrock's, Are they alot more powerful?

-- EDIT
Ok, did reading on the Asrocks, it looks like a very nice system. I'm assuming it can run Win 7 + XBMC + play 1080p without any problems.
I can get it imported, luckily the OZ dollar is looking quite good relative to US and GDP

[pre1014]

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-r...ew?start=4

I'd get the intel ss4200e. That review has the system out-benching the qnap. its about 1/2 the price (but not available on newegg anymore) as the qnap systems too.

With a decent raid system the troughput of the drives will exceed the bandwidth of the network. If I run hdtach on my raid 5 setup it gets a consistent 300MB/sec while gigabit ethernet is only 128MB/s (but this is why certain nics allow link aggregation).

BUT - you could buy the cheapest POS nas and probably wouldn't have any issues with streaming over smb since blu-ray has a max data rate of around 4.5MB/sec(i believe-and checked wikipedia).

[popper]

I agree with pre.
In my experience, even the most basic NAS read/write speeds are more than sufficient for media streaming. It would always be the network speed that would be the bottleneck

I admit I haven't streamed 1080p (but have streamed multiple 720p files simultaneously no problems)

[n1ck2421]

The SS4200e looks interesting now.

I see that there is a way to install Windows Home Server on it and you can upgrade the memory too.

http://forum.wegotserved.com/index.php?/...-ss4200-e/

Not sure how WHS would behave though in a raid 5.
I beleive raid 5 is disabled in WHS.

[tehsoul]

the netgear readynas nv+ is also a valid alternative to look in to IMHO (prices for it have dropped significantly since its successor, the NVX, was announced)the X-RAID functionality is fantastic (basically a flexible raid 5)