2010-05-22, 19:57
I went with the home built file server. Just more flexible. You can constantly add disk/storage to your media server. Run out of sata ports? add a pcie sata card.
You could use it to run sabnzbd or as a torrent box. Maybe you want to turn it into a mythtv server later. I think this especially since in the future xbmc will have a built in pvr frontend - you just want to have those options.
I'd get a low power atom board with some expansion ports. something like this:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...-_-Product
You could always make it easy for yourself by using something like Mythbuntu. Just a little overhead but this will primarily be a file server. An atom chip will be more than enough.
You could use it to run sabnzbd or as a torrent box. Maybe you want to turn it into a mythtv server later. I think this especially since in the future xbmc will have a built in pvr frontend - you just want to have those options.
I'd get a low power atom board with some expansion ports. something like this:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...-_-Product
You could always make it easy for yourself by using something like Mythbuntu. Just a little overhead but this will primarily be a file server. An atom chip will be more than enough.
