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Curious what others think. Basically, I've owned my ReadyNAS Duo with 2x500GB drives for a few years. Today, my HTPC build came in from NewEgg.
My original plan was to pop 2x2TB drives into the NAS, then use the "old" 2x500GB drives in the HTPC Hackintosh (1 for Mac, 1 for Windows). Then simply use the Hackintosh to run Plex, SABnzbd, Couch Potato, and Sick Beard and have it store the files on the NAS. When I'd want to watch something, Plex would pull from the NAS over Gigabit ethernet connection and play it.
However, I'm thinking it may be easier and more efficient to simply pop the 2x2TB's into the HTPC instead, and please the 500's in the NAS. The issue here is, I wouldn't want Windows to consume (via NTFS patitioning) the entire 2TB - I'd want something along the lines of having 1 2TB drive with OSX, Apps, Movie Storage, etc, and the other 2TB drive to take maybe 100GB for Windows, and the rest able to be usable storage to OSX for TV Shows, Music, etc. However, this seems like it may be a pain to setup.
Thoughts?
My original plan was to pop 2x2TB drives into the NAS, then use the "old" 2x500GB drives in the HTPC Hackintosh (1 for Mac, 1 for Windows). Then simply use the Hackintosh to run Plex, SABnzbd, Couch Potato, and Sick Beard and have it store the files on the NAS. When I'd want to watch something, Plex would pull from the NAS over Gigabit ethernet connection and play it.
However, I'm thinking it may be easier and more efficient to simply pop the 2x2TB's into the HTPC instead, and please the 500's in the NAS. The issue here is, I wouldn't want Windows to consume (via NTFS patitioning) the entire 2TB - I'd want something along the lines of having 1 2TB drive with OSX, Apps, Movie Storage, etc, and the other 2TB drive to take maybe 100GB for Windows, and the rest able to be usable storage to OSX for TV Shows, Music, etc. However, this seems like it may be a pain to setup.
Thoughts?