NAS Box for DLNA

TurnipTruck
TurnipTruck Junior Member
in AMX General Discussion
Greetings,

Any recommendations for a NAS box that would be used primarily as a DLNA server? There are several Yamaha receivers and an Autonomics MMS on the network that would be the clients.

Thanks.
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  • DHawthorne
    DHawthorne Junior Member
    I've been using the LaCie 2Big and 5Big drives for that kind of thing. Haven't had any issues, though I recommend putting them in the RAID format for redundancy appropriate to the drive arrangement (they default in one of the performance configurations).
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  • the8thst
    the8thst Junior Member
    Check out Synology
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  • vining
    vining X Member
    the8thst wrote: »
    Check out Synology

    I also like the Synology box for the camera station package, it will also run an iTunes server package and logitech media server, plex and a whole bunch of other stuff. QNap is a similar product and you can also use a Vortexbox which has a rip CD/DVD tray, plex, subsonic, mpad, etc. I think the Vortex is the best value unless you need the camera station for IP cameras DVR functionality.
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  • chill
    chill Luddite
    I've had good luck using FreeNAS as a general-purpose NAS, although I have not tried DLNA. It would be easy enough to test if you have a spare hard drive lying around. The price is certainly right. http://www.freenas.org/
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  • TurnipTruck
    TurnipTruck Junior Member
    Thanks guys. I ordered a Synology.
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  • the8thst
    the8thst Junior Member
    chill wrote: »
    I've had good luck using FreeNAS as a general-purpose NAS, although I have not tried DLNA. It would be easy enough to test if you have a spare hard drive lying around. The price is certainly right. http://www.freenas.org/

    I used FreeNAS for a while, but you have to be fairly careful with harddrive selection as their software will eventually cause some drives to prematurely fail.

    I also started to feel guilty for having a full tower server case running dual P4's just for a nas system. The old server was the only spare thing I had lying around, so that was my only option.
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