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Yes, this question gets asked A LOT!
And I have read many of the posts and am still fairly confused as to how to proceed.
First the hardware.
I picked up an HP EliteDesk 800 G2 over the holidays. It is tiny and very nearly silent, so it is easy to locate for use as an HTPC. It is a bit of overkill for its purpose: I5-6500, 12 GB ram, 256 GB SSD. It is hooked up (via USB3) to an Orinco 5-bay drive enclosure populated with 5 3TB Seagate drives.
The only thing on the Orinco currently is about 6 TB of movies.
The combination works very well....very low total power at 65 wts....dead silent....runs very cool.
I would like to stream to other devices over the house network. So far as I can tell it appears that Plex Media is the software solution of choice for that: Any other suggestions?
With the remaining disk space I would like a NAS. I have no idea of what software I should acquire for that purpose....or is there a single program solution that satisfies both?
Thanks in advance for your advice!
Dan Truong
And I have read many of the posts and am still fairly confused as to how to proceed.
First the hardware.
I picked up an HP EliteDesk 800 G2 over the holidays. It is tiny and very nearly silent, so it is easy to locate for use as an HTPC. It is a bit of overkill for its purpose: I5-6500, 12 GB ram, 256 GB SSD. It is hooked up (via USB3) to an Orinco 5-bay drive enclosure populated with 5 3TB Seagate drives.
The only thing on the Orinco currently is about 6 TB of movies.
The combination works very well....very low total power at 65 wts....dead silent....runs very cool.
I would like to stream to other devices over the house network. So far as I can tell it appears that Plex Media is the software solution of choice for that: Any other suggestions?
With the remaining disk space I would like a NAS. I have no idea of what software I should acquire for that purpose....or is there a single program solution that satisfies both?
Thanks in advance for your advice!
Dan Truong
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