anyone know about NAS drives?

[Big Mouse]

As we're on the move I've had to reduce my DVD/Bluray collection but I've still got over 200 so I've decided to put all the dvd's onto a NAS drive in a format that a DLNA bluray player can recognise.

I've looked on Ebuyer but still none the wiser - does the NAS drive slot into a spare bay in the pc or do I need an external housing for it? I'm thinking a 2gb drive to give me plenty of room for expansion.

So who can tell me what sort of drive would be best?
what else do I need to consider - the pc is a recent i7 pc with Win8 and 12 GB of ram.  Its only got basic geoforce 640 gt graphics but does that come into play if I'm running the films through the TV?

[Roadkill]

Ian's the man - he's got a few of them.

[a91_formula]

We've got a NAS Drive.  A 2x2TB one in mirrored (f one drive fails the other has the data).

The graphics depends on how you are connected to the TV.

Here is a linkie

http://www.buffalo-technology.com/en/products/storage-devices/consumer-nas/linkstationtm/?no_cache=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.buffalo-technology.com/en/products/storage-devices/consumer-nas/linkstationtm/?no_cache=1

Cheers

[ianjpage]

OK, simply put a NAS drive is that a (N) Network (A) Attached (S) storage deivce so it doesn't require anything in the pc, it's normally a standalone box that has 1 or more HDD's in which you link into your wired or wireless network.

For what you're looking to do you WILL need more than a 2Gig setup, i'd think a minimum of 2TB (Terabyte) and i'd sugggest for backup / data recovery you'd be best with a multiple drive system, either 2 drives mirrored (meaning the same data is saved on both discs) or a 4 drive RAID system (where the system is written in a special way that the data can be recovered in a faulty drive situation)

It all comes down to cost and what you want, have a look on Ebuyer / Overclockers at NAS system by Buffalo, Synergy, Linksys or Netgear and as you say, look fr one that has DNLA or media Streaming capability

Hope that helps, if you need any more info lemme know and ill try to reply before we leave the US, if not we back next fri so can answer then

[Titsy]

Drobo

[Big Mouse]

Quoting: ianjpage

OK, simply put a NAS drive is that a (N) Network (A) Attached (S) storage deivce so it doesn't require anything in the pc, it's normally a standalone box that has 1 or more HDD's in which you link into your wired or wireless network.

For what you're looking to do you WILL need more than a 2Gig setup, i'd think a minimum of 2TB (Terabyte) and i'd sugggest for backup / data recovery you'd be best with a multiple drive system, either 2 drives mirrored (meaning the same data is saved on both discs) or a 4 drive RAID system (where the system is written in a special way that the data can be recovered in a faulty drive situation)

It all comes down to cost and what you want, have a look on Ebuyer / Overclockers at NAS system by Buffalo, Synergy, Linksys or Netgear and as you say, look fr one that has DNLA or media Streaming capability

Hope that helps, if you need any more info lemme know and ill try to reply before we leave the US, if not we back next fri so can answer then

Thanks for the advice Ian

I meant to say 2 TB not 2 gb, my bad.

I'll get looking, and have something here next week. Tea and bacon butty's on me if you can help me install and set up once you're back and settled in?

Any advice on ripping software that will convert to a suitable format?

cheers

Ray

[Big Mouse]

Quoting: Titsy

Drobo

I only need something to hold a couple of hundred dvds not host Microsofts library

[art b]

Quoting: Titsy

Drobo

thats a bit harsh..

he only asked a simple question ...

[Jamieg285]

Quoting: Big Mouse

Any advice on ripping software that will convert to a suitable format?

I was going to ask you how you were going to do it.  I'll watch with interest to see how it's done, as I'd like to digitise my library too if it's possible.

[Big Mouse]

Got this bad boy heading my way in the morning

http://www.ebuyer.com/507127-synology-ds213j-2tb-wd-red-hdd-2-bay-desktop-nas-ds213j-2tb-red\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.ebuyer.com/507127-synology-ds213j-2tb-wd-red-hdd-2-bay-desktop-nas-ds213j-2tb-red

[a91_formula]

Try Handbrake for ripping Dvd's. We have used it for years and does the job poifectly ;)

[ianjpage]

Quoting: Big Mouse

I'll get looking, and have something here next week. Tea and bacon butty's on me if you can help me install and set up once you're back and settled in?

Yeah of course no probs glsd to give ya a hand

Quoting: a91_formula

Try Handbrake for ripping Dvd's. We have used it for years and does the job poifectly

Cheers will check it out

[Jamieg285]

Not had any luck with Handbrake so far, but I've not had time to delve in yet.

Only tried 1 disc and it's not decrypting it properly.  It looks like it's not reading the extra dll that's needed, but I can't see why yet.

I'll report back when I've had time to look.

[Big Mouse]

Tried handbrake but it wouldn't work for me either, said disc was copyrighted (which it is like most dvds) so tried Freemake instead, that seems to be doing it ok

[Jamieg285]

I started afresh with Handbrake yesterday and followed the instructions exactly this time (although I'm sure I did before) and this time it worked OK, on the same disc.

I did find that it dropped the sound from 5.1 to 2 channel, but there are options to change that, which I'll be looking into later.