Recent content by nemo183

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    Help! Simple plan plan gone Pete Tong. Rescue me! Nas or PC? Plex or Xmbc or.. .. .... ..

    Thanks for your reply. It is the photos I'm most worried about. I'm tempted to put all the content on the Vostro and use the RAID NAS as backup.. The NAS has arm processors and is slow. Another possibility would get an intel based NAS, and abandon the Vostro, and backup to the old NAS.. Any...
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    Help! Simple plan plan gone Pete Tong. Rescue me! Nas or PC? Plex or Xmbc or.. .. .... ..

    Bill, thanks for taking the time. As yet I have not found the instructions to be my friends, but I''ll use your advice and change my attitude. I'm tempted to run the Vostro as a DNLA server and use the NAS for backup - do you think that's feasible.? The NAS is poweredd by arm processors and...
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    Help! Simple plan plan gone Pete Tong. Rescue me! Nas or PC? Plex or Xmbc or.. .. .... ..

    I read your post and had to laugh - to be honest you could slap... and was expecting to read - yourself for being an idiot.. Thanks for the ideas. Frankly, I'll have trouble with your plan as the vostro is even furher away. But may I ask if you would chose Plex or XBMC or even something else...
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    Help! Simple plan plan gone Pete Tong. Rescue me! Nas or PC? Plex or Xmbc or.. .. .... ..

    I've looked at serviio and like it. I'll investigate it further. I'm tempted to run it on the vostro rather than the NAS, as the ds212 has arm processors and seems slow. I'd then use the NAS for backup.. Is my plan to use the tablet to show as much metadata as possible sensible? Thanks for...
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    Help! Simple plan plan gone Pete Tong. Rescue me! Nas or PC? Plex or Xmbc or.. .. .... ..

    About a year ago I had a plan. For some reason I decided to switch all my Av to digital. I would digitise all our old photos and create flac lossless copies of my music so I could always listen to it if one of the kids had pinched the CD. I would control all this via a tablet which I hoped...