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It mostly depends on your storage requirements. If you need more than ~4TB I recommend to go the NAS route right away, otherwise a NUC with an external USB harddrive might be just the thing for you.
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I would definitely recommend standalone NAS.
NUC is very quiet (can be made silent with aftermarket enclosure). Then you just stuff the NAS in a basement/closet/etc. Also upgrading and swapping out your storage will be more painless on NAS than having one franken-PC that does everything. Finally, if you need to upgrade the NUC in a couple of years to support 3D/4K/etc you don't need to screw with your storage box to do it.
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2014-06-27, 06:18
(This post was last modified: 2014-06-27, 06:19 by Dalton63841.)
I run a standalone NAS running Debian, and a raspberry pi for XBMC, but will soon be upgrading to a NUC. My NAS does a LOT of work, SMB, NFS, AFP, LAMP, Handbrake, Filebot, Transmission, Sabnzbd, etc...
The XBMC box has exactly one job, running XBMC, and that is the best way to do it. Makes tinkering with addons and different things on XBMC significantly easier, and safer to tinker without risking your data.
Plus, a NAS running a console only operating system + a NUC drawing 8W(at least I read that) will draw less power than a full sized HTPC running a full operating system with GUI and pushing HD video.
