Re: Networked NAS Drives for Serving DVDs?

[Andrew Kilgore <andrew.kilgore@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've had the Synology DS-101g+ (with a 300Gb Seagate SATA HD) for a few
months now and am pretty happy with it.
Had some initial problems using it to serve music to the Squeezeboxes as
SlimServer would keep the file handle open when the units were powered off
which would cause the NAS to "cool itself" every 15 minutes or
so. However,
this can be resolved by an option in SlimServer.

I bought the g+ version for the Gigabit speed and all the other gizmos
(FTP/Web server etc.)
However, if these are not requirements you could just opt for the cheaper
(and fanless) DS-101j (or the original DS-101 if there's any about).
Of course the nice thing about the DiskStation is that you can attach up to
3 more HDs via USB or use one of the USB ports as a print server.

As far as I know, Synology have released the relevant source code to comply
with GPL.
As far as hacking goes, I've been able to hack it so I can telnet into it
to
move stuff around quickly etc. which is all I require at present.

Cheers,
Andy.

On 1/1/06, Andy Davies <dajdavies@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Nice price on the bare bones version, makes Synology, KuroBox etc look
> expensive.
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> Wonder how hackable they are?
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> Also notice they don't appear to have released the source code for the
> GPL parts of their firmware.
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> Andy
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> tonytofts wrote:
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> >Hi all,
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> >Was wondering if anyone can advise on the suitability of network
> >(100mbs) NAS drives for serving up iso dvd images please?
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> >Unfortunately my dvd multi-changer is giving up the ghost and am
> >looking for an alternative solution...
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> >I've found the following 300gb drive
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> >http://www.allcam.biz/products/lan_drive.html
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> >It claims to power off when not in use, and being networked i can
> >add more as i get around to ripping my dvd's
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> >Was wondering what experience people on the list have of serving
dvd
> >iso's (non-compressed) over a lan please?
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> >Many thanks
> >Tony
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