xbian as NAS

[mk01]

look, it will work, yes. but consider the following: the whole RPI is able to get average 3MB/s of network speed, ... or 5-8MB/s sustained disk write. if you do it at the same time, performance impact. then run transmission with 20-30 torrents. performance down again and even transmission will not be able to max you Internet connection. and we have not started XBMC yet.

I don't want to propagate it's not possible / is unusable. but don't expect miracles. if you have two tv sets, and you never watch from both, acceptable low cost solution would be three RPIs (two as media players for TVs, one as inet downloader / db storage).

but it is quite possible, that with price of three RPIs + disk you can buy NAS and have it all done from factory.

but, you can install all the packages via xbian-config. then I would export your media directories via NFS (minimum overhead, top speed) - which again can be mounted directly on others devices, or via XBMC.

the whole setup should be painless, 20minutes max.