RE: NAS recommendations? - was 'Watchdog software?'

[Marcus Warrington <marcus.warrington@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mmm, that's a bit worrying.. I'll have to investigate. I probably
wouldn't =
be using USB drives (except for an offline backup) so it *may* not be a
big=
gy for me.. but still a little disconcerting. Hopefully the
"hacked" firmwa=
re may be behave better :-)

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Thanks

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of D=
avey B
Sent: 30 April 2007 11:13
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Watchdog software?

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Personally I'm not impressed with my NSLU2. Two things....
If it's not hacked (and mine isn't apart from the latest linksys firmware)
it has corrupted two NTFS formatted USB drives. I "think" it's
caused by
turning off the NSLU2 when the drive is connected to "disk2" on
the NSLU2. =
I
think from memory NTFS is not supported on disk2 ... but seems to work..
apart from when you turn it off or reboot. I would of liked to add a simple
plug timer to turn the whole thing off.. but I haven't managed to get the
power on switch hack working..... so it's sitting in the loft with nothing
connected. I'm thinking of going down the samba and mini-itx board route as
I now distrust the slug. I streamed only to two devices (one dvd and one
music)over wireless and this seemed to work fine for my DVD (4 gig .ISO)
an=
d
.APE music collection that I keep on the USBs
Your mileage may wary though.

Hope that helps.

On 30/04/07, Marcus Warrington <marcus.warrington@xxxxxxx <mailto:marcus=
.warrington%40mis-es.com> > wrote:
>
> As part of on going drive to reduce my electric bill (currently paying
> =A3111 a month!) I'm thinking of getting some kind of low powered NAS
dev=
ice
> to use
> as a server for video and music.
>
> Currently all the movies and mp3's reside in the MP3 jukebox machine
(old
> 800 Duron running XP + XLobby). If I can move the data off onto a NAS
the=
n
> this machine can go into suspend/hibernate mode when no one is playing
> music.
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations for a reasonable, cheap NAS ?
>
> I'm currently looking at the NSLU2 "slug". Its cheap and
plenty of hacks.=
.
> My main concern is bandwidth.. when playing movies to multiple XBOXES
>
> Marcus
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