2009-09-17, 00:36
I would avoid the iomega drive, check out the prosumer/small/med business NAS's from Readynas(netgear) and thecus.
readynas pro
readynas nvx (avoid the nv+ its too slow to stream that much concurrently)
thecus 4x00, 5x00, or 7700
wireless to the cottages seems like it would fine, but I would definately try to get cat 5 or 6 to the rooms you can.
the xbox only has 100mb ethernet, but I would use a gigabit switch to connect everything, especially the nas.
starting small is the way to go, I would simply keep the boxes in the office and rent/sign them out only to customers who are interested, at least until you can afford to build out/buy more stuff, and discover any other issues that come up.
if you go the iso route (4gig with menus etc), then anydvd + dvd shrink is the way to go IMO.
anydvd + clone dvd mobile can get you easy to use avi files much smaller than ISO, but without menus of course.
ripping time is directly proportional to the cpu power of the computer doing the shrink.. intel quad cores are pretty fast, my q6600 rips/shrinks a dvd in bout 20-30 minutes including the extra analysis pass.
you can set the default user/password in the xbmc network options, look for smb client options.
readynas pro
readynas nvx (avoid the nv+ its too slow to stream that much concurrently)
thecus 4x00, 5x00, or 7700
wireless to the cottages seems like it would fine, but I would definately try to get cat 5 or 6 to the rooms you can.
the xbox only has 100mb ethernet, but I would use a gigabit switch to connect everything, especially the nas.
starting small is the way to go, I would simply keep the boxes in the office and rent/sign them out only to customers who are interested, at least until you can afford to build out/buy more stuff, and discover any other issues that come up.
if you go the iso route (4gig with menus etc), then anydvd + dvd shrink is the way to go IMO.
anydvd + clone dvd mobile can get you easy to use avi files much smaller than ISO, but without menus of course.
ripping time is directly proportional to the cpu power of the computer doing the shrink.. intel quad cores are pretty fast, my q6600 rips/shrinks a dvd in bout 20-30 minutes including the extra analysis pass.
you can set the default user/password in the xbmc network options, look for smb client options.
