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iscsi or nfs?

TheBuzzer

TheBuzzer

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i am wondering what is better for xbmc

i have a nas server that support iscsi and nfs

i am wondering which will be better to use for xbmc on an openelec?


I am hoping it wont have to transcode the video files or anything to read it.
 
well, iscsi can only be used by one computer at a time (unless you go though the pain of using a clustering filesystem of some type, normally not simple to setup).

nfs can be used by many systems at the same time.
 
For XBMC, SMB is the easiest. XBMC plays just about any format out of the box and doesn't do transcoding (it just plays what it is presented), so as long as your client has the processing power/right hardware you won't have to worry. If you want a server-based media package that does support transcoding (which will allow you to play files that the client may not have the processing prowess or bandwidth to play) then you should look to something like Plex.
 
NFS. If you are using Linux and it sounds like you are NFS is a breeze to setup. Since you are on Linux it's nothing more than installing nfs-common, editing your fstab using mount -a to test it then rebooting once you've got it working.
 
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