Re: New Media Server....What about Mac based?!

["noel_pilot" <HA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

that might be worth hanging on for.
any details on how one creates a raid 5'd firewire array?!?

any idea when the mac minis are set for replacement? i know its almost
on a set replacement cycle with apple but im not sure where we up to
with the minis!?

sorry for this....OT.....(just flicked onto alias and good god is
Jennifer Garner hot! :) )




--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Russ Spooner <spooner@g...> wrote:
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> I think with Frontrow 2 and a firewire array, you should be pretty
much set.
>
> It is currently rumoured that the new Minis (due to be announced
pretty
> soon) will be intel based and more designed for media applications
than
> anything else, with the added bonus of having an iPod dock built in!
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> Plus they are purty.
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> Russ
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> On 5/12/05 4:04 pm, "noel_pilot" <HA@a...> wrote:
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> > Hey all,
> > well we're talking about media servers and as I've filled 300Gb
in
> > less than a month ripping my Dvds and well on the way to my
second
> > (even tho it hasn't arrived yet, its nearly full!!) I thought I'd
ask
> > this....
> >
> > Is there any way I could go about using a Mac as a media server
i.e.
> > some kind of external drive holder that could connect to the Mac?
 Im
> > looking for capacity for 8 drives, if I go pc  based it will be
with
> > one of the rocketraid cards but i'd love to be able to abandon
the pc
> > idea and do it with say a mac mini and some kind of sata drive
holder!!
> >
> > Opinions/suggestions/or am i just plain mad!!
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > noel
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