nero0410
Distinguished Member
I have never owned a Nas Storage device in the past at all, and have been using a HTPC for my media player with Kodi, but it's on the blink, thankfully the drives containing all my blu, dvd, cd rips are all fine.
I have two 3TB Drives and two 8TB drives containing the rips for all my music, film, tv and photos. I am hoping to be able to buy a diskless Nas enclosure for use with either Plex or Kodi (either on PS4 or nVidia Shield. I may even upgrade to the lifetime Plex thingy so I can still watch movies whilst away, unless it's possible to setup the Nas as a 'portable HDD' containing all my drives?
All my movies, tv show's highest resolutions are 1080p and I run everything through my Denon amp. I'd like all the video to run smoothly and the newer had audio streams to work. DTS/MA, DolbyTrueHD, Dolby Atmos, DTS: Neural X.
I'm guessing the hardware I'm streaming the files to does the encoding?
With passthrough for the hd audio?
Unless I'm streaming to my tablet/phone?
I'm honestly clueless as to how it all works.
All my content is ripped to .mkv format/container.
Is Nas storage what I need or would it be better for me to just get a 4 bay hdd enclosure?
I would guess that a nas would be better, as I can have it set up and almost always on then and be able to have it in one place in my home to watch anything anywhere in the flat.
My budget is £300. I would really appreciate some advice as to what enclosure would best suit my needs.
Cheers
tris
I have two 3TB Drives and two 8TB drives containing the rips for all my music, film, tv and photos. I am hoping to be able to buy a diskless Nas enclosure for use with either Plex or Kodi (either on PS4 or nVidia Shield. I may even upgrade to the lifetime Plex thingy so I can still watch movies whilst away, unless it's possible to setup the Nas as a 'portable HDD' containing all my drives?
All my movies, tv show's highest resolutions are 1080p and I run everything through my Denon amp. I'd like all the video to run smoothly and the newer had audio streams to work. DTS/MA, DolbyTrueHD, Dolby Atmos, DTS: Neural X.
I'm guessing the hardware I'm streaming the files to does the encoding?
With passthrough for the hd audio?
Unless I'm streaming to my tablet/phone?
I'm honestly clueless as to how it all works.
All my content is ripped to .mkv format/container.
Is Nas storage what I need or would it be better for me to just get a 4 bay hdd enclosure?
I would guess that a nas would be better, as I can have it set up and almost always on then and be able to have it in one place in my home to watch anything anywhere in the flat.
My budget is £300. I would really appreciate some advice as to what enclosure would best suit my needs.
Cheers
tris