Network media server for next gen consoles and home theater

[executioner]

Found a couple of articles over at smallnetbuilder regarding building your own nas with atom, geode and c7. At the start of that article you will find a link to a couple of more DIY for an atom based nas and an atom vs geode article.

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas- ... heaper-nas

[samsonlonghair]

Being the cheap ass that I am, I would do it the cheap way. Just find an old junk PC, add a few big hard drives, install XP media center edition, and call it done. The only money spent would be on hard drives.

[fastbilly1]

Well it looks like several have made the DNS-323 work with a PS3 but it takes some finagling:
http://boardsus.playstation.com/playsta ... e.id=47398

I like geode machines, but most of them dont really have the umph you need to host HD footage. The atom on the other hand has not failed me yet. Sooner or later my torrent box/main browsing pc will be atom based.

[Niode]

Not really sure how it works but I know I've copied several HD MKV files both 720p and 1080p to my PS3's hard drive over PS3 Media Server. Perhaps it transcodes on the fly but they're still .mkv files when they arrive on my PS3 and they play fine.