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<blockquote data-quote="Moonracer" data-source="post: 566172" data-attributes="member: 86360">I'm at the point that I'm seriously contemplating the building/purchasing of a NAS solution. I plan to use Cat6 with GB Nic's. I have heard nothing but good things about Synology's products and I also like the price of the pre-build cases of unRaid.I currently have two 2TB Western Digital Mirror edition drives. I use both in RAID 0 but only one is active and the other is my backup drive(s) due to the build in Raid controllers in these units not handling (throughput/badwidth) some BD content I have. I have a third 2TB WD Mirror edition in Raid 1 for DVDs and other files. I just added yet another 500GB drive for backup images of the OS drive and as a scratch drive to hold BD rips and to mux them.My concern is this. Does unRaid or Synology in a Raid 1 configuration in conjunction with Cat6 and GB Nics, have problems playing BD content? I like unRaid, the Synology solutions and thinking about building my own Linux NAS. The advantage of building a Linux NAS is that I can use an old case with plenty of room for hard drives, Raid is not necessary nor do I take the hit in performance from Raid 1 over a single drive (Raid 1 being slower than Raid 0 or a single drive). I have setup two Linux Nas servers and use a cron job to sync them nightly (or as often as I like). This way, the backup drive is not being written to constancy, doesn't require a lot of processing power (CPU or controller) for software RAID and is easy to setup.Any information on using unRaid or Synology products for transferring BD/HD content via the network?Thanks!mr</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Moonracer, post: 566172, member: 86360"] I'm at the point that I'm seriously contemplating the building/purchasing of a NAS solution. I plan to use Cat6 with GB Nic's. I have heard nothing but good things about Synology's products and I also like the price of the pre-build cases of unRaid. I currently have two 2TB Western Digital Mirror edition drives. I use both in RAID 0 but only one is active and the other is my backup drive(s) due to the build in Raid controllers in these units not handling (throughput/badwidth) some BD content I have. I have a third 2TB WD Mirror edition in Raid 1 for DVDs and other files. I just added yet another 500GB drive for backup images of the OS drive and as a scratch drive to hold BD rips and to mux them. My concern is this. Does unRaid or Synology in a Raid 1 configuration in conjunction with Cat6 and GB Nics, have problems playing BD content? I like unRaid, the Synology solutions and thinking about building my own Linux NAS. The advantage of building a Linux NAS is that I can use an old case with plenty of room for hard drives, Raid is not necessary nor do I take the hit in performance from Raid 1 over a single drive (Raid 1 being slower than Raid 0 or a single drive). I have setup two Linux Nas servers and use a cron job to sync them nightly (or as often as I like). This way, the backup drive is not being written to constancy, doesn't require a lot of processing power (CPU or controller) for software RAID and is easy to setup. Any information on using unRaid or Synology products for transferring BD/HD content via the network? Thanks! mr [/QUOTE]

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