xbian as NAS

[pramod9964]

How do i lake my pi running xbian 1.0 beta as a NAS box ?
any tutorial or link will be appreciated

[mk01]

hmm, waste of time trying. technically no problem, but speed will kill you (and rpi as well).

[IriDium]

I wouldn't use Xbian for it - why would you want xbmc running as well as a NAS server.

Use Raspbian and follow this guide. http://lifehacker.com/5988835/turn-a-raspberry-pi-into-a-low-power-nas

[mk01]

still, RPI cpus power is minimal. once, I was using ASUS router as NAS. it works, but makes no sense.

[pramod9964]

let me tell you the reason y
am following this guide
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=47084&p=371415 to make this as a *Fully* Automated TV/Movie downloads
machine
the thing is once after i download the shows i should have an option of watching it on tv or my laptop/tablet
hence am asking you this question

so is there any other way to achieve this?

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can i connect 2 raspberry pies to one single harddisk
pie A does downloading from the internet

pie B shares the same file to other devices

is this possible?

[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.

[IriDium]

It's like asking a Mini to be a dumpster truck - Yes is can be done but....

If you want a NAS server get a TP-Link DNS 323 for about $60 on ebay, cheaper if you look around. It works om the RPi - I've tested it and it works.

Don't ask the impossible.

The RPi is a little puppy, don't ask it to be a bulldog.