Media solution projekt for boutique resort

[psysfaction]

Hi there,

Since two days I am reading through this great page reading helpful reviews and guide on everything concerning NAS.

I work in a boutique resort in the west Bali National park in Indonesia and I proposed our GM to that it would be nice if we could give our guest a convenient way of watching movies.

What I would like to do is install a raspberry pi running Openelec in every room and having a NAS server which will be powerful enough to stream all movies to the rooms.

The movies will most be 720p/1080p in mkv format file size around 4-10g per movie.

We have 14 rooms in one location and another 7 rooms 2 km further away at the beach.

So I would need one NAS for each location.

Since the hotels want's to offer a selection between 100-300 movies, storage of 4-6 TB would be enough.

I was looking at "Buffalo LinkStation 420 NAS" which seems to have fast reading speeds and is quite affordable which is great since the budget is quite tight for this project.

Do you think this Nas is build well enough to stream the movies to 14 rooms and run 24/7?

I would really appreciate your knowledge.

Best wishes from Bali

David

 

[stevech]

I'm a Raspberry Pi owner.
It's a hobby thing. XBMC just barely works.
Trying to use it as you say would be a really bad idea.

On NASes... look here at all the vendors and their ratings, and on Newegg and Amazon for buyer's opinions.
Throw out the oddballs and lows/highs and look at the ones with the best average scores.

I'd think you'd be wanting a movie server that uses the TV cable to the room, as is common in hotels to get expensive movies to each room.
At least here where I am, a hotel/motel cannot get movie content for free, due to copyright/DRM laws.

 

[psysfaction]

I'm a Raspberry Pi owner.
It's a hobby thing. XBMC just barely works.
Trying to use it as you say would be a really bad idea.

This is a bold statement...

From what I saw and read about the Raspberry Pi it is very much capable to run openelc if everything is tweaked right.

Do you run XBMC or Openelec? Do you only use SD or do you store the files in combination with a usb flash drive to improve speed?
Do you have it overclocked?

I have run openelec and XBMC on various devices and in two weeks I'll get a raspberry pi.

Of course I'll test it before buying them for all the rooms

 

[thiggins]

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/multimedia-voip/multimedia-voip-reviews/32034-raspbmc-reviewed

 

[psysfaction]

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/multimedia-voip/multimedia-voip-reviews/32034-raspbmc-reviewed

He should also have a look at the Openelc version of XBMC for the Pi and there is also a project called Xbian which only focuses on giving you the best possible xbmc experience on a Pi

That's what I love about XBMC. It is available on so many platforms and there are so many version of it from kreative minds.
Even plex originally was based on the code of XBMC if I am not wrong