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Originally Posted by !MiKrofT
Also if you don't buy a fairly high end NAS the throughput pales in comparison. Now this isn't to say NAS' aren't great but they have their ups and downs depending on what it's used for.
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This. I bought a QNAP TS410 a few years back (and still using it now). I would consider it a low end NAS device. I get maybe 10-15MB/s write from this. It's severely limited by the CPU on the NAS device which is optimized more for low power consumption. Throw the fact I'm doing RAID5 on top of that which sucks up more CPU cycles during writes.
If I'm going to spend $800 for a higher end NAS box, then I'd rather put that towards an actual PC based NAS solution. At least it's a bit more versatile and I'm not handcuffed by hardware limitations.
Anyways, for the OP's question, you should be able to integrate the NAS functionality into your HTPC. I'm assuming it's a Windows box? File access should be OK if you share the folders that you want access to. Android has a million apps you can use to view files on your network. Streaming through Plex installed on the HTPC should give you the streaming video.