Sield Posted October 25, 2010 Share Posted October 25, 2010 Hi everybody ! First I apologize for my poor english I promise I'll do some efforts ! I've discovered recently unRAID, and I'd like to know if I can do that : - NAS (I think yes of course ) - Time Machine compatibility (I think yes again) - AirVideo (I've read something here feels it's ok, but maybe hardly) - HTPC with nice GUI ? - iTunes server (of course) Does unRAID support hardware acceleration for full HD video ? From integreted chipset or some graphics cards ? I was looking for 2 choices : - Intel ATOM D525 motherboard, and a PCI graphic card with hardware acceleration for MKV 1080p - AMD Athlon X2 250, Gigabyte GA-880GM-D2H (AMD 880G) - Micro ATX Always 2 Gb of RAM, and 2 HDD of 1,5To, or 2To. Thanks, and sorry again I you don't understand me :'( Link to comment
Joe L. Posted October 25, 2010 Share Posted October 25, 2010 Hi everybody ! First I apologize for my poor english I promise I'll do some efforts ! I've discovered recently unRAID, and I'd like to know if I can do that : - NAS (I think yes of course ) Yes - Time Machine compatibility (I think yes again)Partial - AirVideo (I've read something here feels it's ok, but maybe hardly)Yes - HTPC with nice GUI ?No. Not unless you install it on a full slackware distribution and compile your own "md" driver. It has NO Gui other than the web-interface. - iTunes server (of course)I think so... Does unRAID support hardware acceleration for full HD video ? From integreted chipset or some graphics cards ? I was looking for 2 choices : - Intel ATOM D525 motherboard, and a PCI graphic card with hardware acceleration for MKV 1080p - AMD Athlon X2 250, Gigabyte GA-880GM-D2H (AMD 880G) - Micro ATX Always 2 Gb of RAM, and 2 HDD of 1,5To, or 2To. Thanks, and sorry again I you don't understand me :'( unRAID has no video drivers other than the most basic of VGA drivers needed to get a command prompt. It will never replace an HTPC. It is a network storage appliance. Joe L. Link to comment
Sield Posted October 25, 2010 Author Share Posted October 25, 2010 Thank you ! Why "partial" support for time machine, and full for airvideo ?! Link to comment
Sield Posted October 25, 2010 Author Share Posted October 25, 2010 And what about a DLNA server for the PS3 with MKV 1080p files ? Will it support hardware acceleration ? thank you ! Link to comment
dgaschk Posted October 25, 2010 Share Posted October 25, 2010 Time Machine only works if you install AFP. Link to comment
Sield Posted November 7, 2010 Author Share Posted November 7, 2010 Thx ! And is it hard to do ? I don't use to use Linux so... Link to comment
Ford Prefect Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 And what about a DLNA server for the PS3 with MKV 1080p files ? Will it support hardware acceleration ? thank you ! ...the board(s) and CPU(s) you are looking into will definitely stream fullHD fine, but will NOT transcode the video format on the fly unless you go for a quad-core at least....this is not a matter of using unRAID or not...you should try that with your hardware of choice beforehand. Using ps3mediaserver will work, see here, for serving via DLNA to a PS3. I received about 2x speed when converting a Bluray from m2ts to mkv with an ATOM-D510...but this is just the container, no video format conversion ...you are looking for a non "of-the-shelf" setup of unRAID. If you are not familiar with using & customizing a linux distribution it will take you same efforts, provided you are willing to learn and are not a complete noop when it comes to using computer OS's. Link to comment
dgaschk Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 Thx ! And is it hard to do ? I don't use to use Linux so... Its best to wait for version 5 which will include AFP. No Idea when V5 with AFP support will be out. Link to comment
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