Originally Posted by JerryL
WOW- that Dune 3.0 seems to be amazing. You can store BRs and play them back as if the playback was via the oppo! I am going to explore this. Thank you!!! Will the Dune play 1080p/24? I am betting it does but I am unable to find this yet on their website. My question is answered in the affirmative. WOW. They say they are shipping in 3 days for the USA.... OK whose your favorite provider of NAS devices?

Yes, the Dune will play 1080p24, as well as 1080p23.98 It can switch automatically to the correct framerate (23.98, 24, 50, 59.94)

I am using a Thecus N5200 (5x500GB in RAID5), which is still running fine after 3 years. Maybe today I would opt for 2x2TB RAID0.

Both QNAP and Synology are the better brands with lots of possibilities to feed every PC and/or Mediaplayer in the house. Ofcouse you can put your entire BR collection online (a 2TB hard drive will hold about 50), but with decent disc failing protection (RAID6, RAID0) your are looking into a serious NAS (ie. QNAP TS809).

This is why I only keep the 'still to watch' stuff 'online' (I always turn the NAS off after watching, I do not like to leave equipment turned on when I don't use it). All the rest I put on single hard drives, and use it as a 'floppy' in the Dune Base 3.0 hard drive slot. No protection against disc failure ofcourse this way and at the moment no way of browsing your entire collection, since the MyMovies information is stored per hard drive. But the latest Dune firmware now allows for hard links, so I am looking into the possibility of putting all MyMovies information on my NAS or a USB stick and hope that the hard link will pop up a message if (ie. 'drive xx not found'), so I know which hard drive the movie is on)

Another possiblity is building a server (ie. Unraid server allows for up to 19 hard drives) and use Wake-On-Lan to take the server out of standby whenever the Dune is turned on.


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