About 2.5 years ago I took the plunge and built myself a XBMC box that was geared as an all-in-one unit for our bedroom, and would occasionally stream to my kids computer. The build was fleshed out here (http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid524681) and it's been generally rock steady, first as a XBMC live box, then XBMCbuntu, now OpenELEC. My library has grown past the 1.5TB drive, and I just installed (really thrown in my case, I had no 5.25 rails for it) a 3TB drive and moving my movies to that now.
Since my build I have also bought a home, and it's making me think of a new strategy. I will have the need to view content at two locations right now (720p/1080p), and likely others in the future.
So I am considering a complete rethought of my storage and delivery side. I could take a pretty old, but still operable 2.8 GHz / 8GB box that I had assigned to the kids and turn that into an unRAID server, I could take my current XBMC box, put it into a smaller case (the current case is been a PITA), and then maybe go with a Raspberry PI or some other device for another playback machine. But it makes me wonder is the PI the best solution in this case, should I go with some Zotac boxes, Apple TV? I would rather low cost, low profile, low noise boxes for playback and stick my file server in the basement.
Choices. What have you guys done in expanding your XBMC footprint?
Since my build I have also bought a home, and it's making me think of a new strategy. I will have the need to view content at two locations right now (720p/1080p), and likely others in the future.
So I am considering a complete rethought of my storage and delivery side. I could take a pretty old, but still operable 2.8 GHz / 8GB box that I had assigned to the kids and turn that into an unRAID server, I could take my current XBMC box, put it into a smaller case (the current case is been a PITA), and then maybe go with a Raspberry PI or some other device for another playback machine. But it makes me wonder is the PI the best solution in this case, should I go with some Zotac boxes, Apple TV? I would rather low cost, low profile, low noise boxes for playback and stick my file server in the basement.
Choices. What have you guys done in expanding your XBMC footprint?