Personally I'm using a Synology solution at the moment, for my NAS. They offer a relatively low cost feature rich hardware, with low power and depending on the HDD's you use, lower power consumption than that of a always on PC.I've been thinking about later on upgrading, since a general rule of thumb, you can never have to much storage. For HD BluRay images I would recommend making sure the network isn't the bottleneck and use gigabit ethernet, as I'm finding on my aging 10/100 switches it's not cutting it. xvid's and MP3 streaming it seems to be fine.
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Personally I'm using a Synology solution at the moment, for my NAS. They offer a relatively low cost feature rich hardware, with low power and depending on the HDD's you use, lower power consumption than that of a always on PC.I've been thinking about later on upgrading, since a general rule of thumb, you can never have to much storage. For HD BluRay images I would recommend making sure the network isn't the bottleneck and use gigabit ethernet, as I'm finding on my aging 10/100 switches it's not cutting it. xvid's and MP3 streaming it seems to be fine.