I'm currently in the midst of building my UnRaid machine and, I'm kinda stuck. My wife wants to be able to watch the local news in the morning. I know I need an antenna for OTA but, what else a TV Tuner and then software like PVR or, should I use a small all in one. Please let me know and, I'd love to know what you are using for this. Thanks & Cheers
Thanks for all the feedback. I'm still a little in the dark on the parity drive thing is, that when it writes to both drives. I'm a real greenhorn. I've never really dealt with using a raid setup so, I'm learning on the go. Sorry. I just want to run kodi with the addons and, be able to stream my media, as well as backups. I would hook into the plasma via HDMI and, connect to the network with a wired connection. The Hopper has DNLA and, I believe it is upnp. Thanks again to all
Hey Yall. I'm totally confused and, I think my head is about to explode!!! I'll try and get to the point quickly. First I wanted to buy a NAS so I could back up my Imac and the wifey's Macbook. Then I thought I'd build a NAS. I mean I've built a few gaming rigs in the past. It can't really be that much different. Then I ran across these ott boxes for the TV that run on andriod. One second let me back up a little. I have a really nice Panasonic Plasma but, Its really not that smart. I've been a dish network loyalist for years and, received the Hopper set up for free. I'm able to stream media from my Mac through the hopper to my plasma using kodi. The problem is that my media is taking up valuable realestate on my mac. This is kind of why I'm here. Like I said before I'm probably going to build my NAS out of an old Micro tower I have. Then I thought why buy the ott box, can't I make my nas do the samething. Kind of like a NAS/Media Server then I can cut out dish altogether. I've been reading all kinds of info but, have yet to come across a clear cut answer. The few other things is that I want to stay away from any windows OS.
The build would consist of:
MB: Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3HP
CPU: AMD A-8 7600K
RAM: 8GB of dual channel DDR3 2133 G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series
SSD: 120GB SAMSUNG 850 EVO
HDD: 4TB HGST Deskstar NAS for Media
HDD: 2-2TB WD Red - one for my backup the other for my wifes backup
Is this the right thinking or do I have it wrong and, if so please correct me. Thank You.