I've looked around and read some other posts but can't seem to find exactly this question. I'm sure it's out there but some of the threads are sooooo long I lose consciousness.

I've got a Tvix HD M-4000P and I use Tvix Netshare and NFS to serve my movies off a single hard drive from my server. Works great, best thing I ever bought besides the PJ. So I want to build a dedicated server with UNRAID so I can have all my movies viewable at once. So my questions are.

First off does anyone see any problem with this as far as the Unraid and tvix working together?

Next will movies stream over Samba well? I only ask because the last time I ever read anything about Tvix was when the 4000 just came out and I remember people having issues. But mine wasn't the first batch and I've upgraded the firmware within the past 6 months.

Other than that I don't see why this system wouldn't work.

Should not be an issue using unraid...
The lack of SMB performance is the basis why many files fail playing right which is why the community forced everyone to add NFS in NAS and Media Players. Up to today, we still pull the NFS support on all devices not having these although samba performance have been greatly improved on the SMP8634/35 based players...

You will have the same results with UNRAID as you have now with the PC. Don4t expect anything different as network performance and SMB performance, both are due to the limitations and hardware (power and memory) of the player itself...

Thanks. As far as Unraid will I be able to make all the drives in the unraid server look like one drive on the network because the 4000 tvix can only recognize one hard drive from a server, as far as I know.

Oh and I just thought of somthing else...can you tell i excited...if I use all my IDE and Sata ports on the inside of the computer will Unraid accept external usb hard drives?

Tvix supports up to 4 network shares.

Check with the Unraid docs or forums about setting up your disks as JBOD (just a bunch of disks = appear as a single disk). Also see Unraid's User Shares concept (http://lime-technology.com/wordpress/?page_id=32).

I have not used Unraid, but currently using the Tvix against a stand alone NAS drive (SimpleTech SimpleShare) as well as Windows 2003 Server. Both are using NFS protocol.

I have an UNRAID box and currently it does NOT support NFS shares. This has been brought up numerous times over the past year on their forums but it is still not supported.

From experience a Tvix HD M-4000P works fine via samba off of an UNRAID Box.

A Tvix HD M-4100S has limited functionality with an UNRAID box. DVD rips and AVI files play fine but virtually all HD content will not play.

A Tvix 6500 does play HD content off of the UNRAID box via Samba. I am guessing this is due to chips handling Samba connections differently.

Popcorn Hour has limited functionality with an UNRAID box. DVD rips and AVI files play fine but virtually all HD content will stutter. HD content also takes along time to start due to buffering.

Thanks for all the speedy replies. I guess I'm off to fry's. This is going to be wicked. But that's all I need another computer in the house.

Thanks for all the info. I went ahead and set up a new server. Got the clearance Rocketfish case from Best buy. It's a beaut. Got 6 sata drives and 2 IDE. Right now it's formatting and setting up the parity.

My question is this, if I use a rosewell 4x sata card to setup the sytem but change to a different controller card in a few days will it screw everything up? Or since the HDD have unique IDs it will recoginze them no matter where they are plugged in? I have the rosewell card lying around and wanted to get the data transfer moving until the new card I ordered arrives. I'm replacing it only because 2 of the sata ports are on the outside of the computer. I could remove one PCI slot cover and run the cable outside but I'm anal about neatness so I wanted a PCI Sata controller that has the 4 ports on the inside. Please let me know as I'll be starting the data transfer tomorrow...oh wait look at the post time it is tomorrow...lol I'll be starting this afternoon.

I got the info from Tom. He said to write down the serial number of which drive is which and then reasign once I have the new card in. But it won't hurt the drives or confuse the system or have to rewrite and of the data.