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- Thread starter Angellus
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I opted for a firewire drive connected to the headless (though it its plugged into the plasma's dvi) old powerbook I use as a media centre in the tv room. The reasoning being that old laptop runs 24/7, has essentially a built-in UPS (the battery), and and can be accessed by all the other machines running at any time. Its hardwired into the lan rather than relying upon the wireless card. Since the machine is running 24/7 it also handles all my entertainment downloading.
The powerbook is only until I get my mac mini and seemed to be the cheapest option available to me at this time. I wouldnt mind hearing more about these standalone hdds as they're new to me.
The powerbook is only until I get my mac mini and seemed to be the cheapest option available to me at this time. I wouldnt mind hearing more about these standalone hdds as they're new to me.
bdt
Executive Member
How about FreeNAS, which gives you an open-ended system, to which you can add bog-standard (P/S)ATA drives as your needs and budget dictate?
You'd be able to plug this (headless, it's managed by internal web page) box directly to your router and NOT get locked into some-or other propietary system! As an added bonus, you can try this out for free to see whether it'll meet your needs before going onto spending actual money!
Quick teaser from the site:
FreeNAS support in the current release:
* Filesystem: UFS, FAT32, EXT2/EXT3, NTFS (limited read-only)
* Protocol: CIFS (samba) , FTP, NFS, SSH, RSYNC and AFP
* Hard drive: ATA/SATA, SCSI, USB and Firewire
* GPT/EFI partitionning for hard drive bigger than 2TB
* Networks cards: All supported by FreeBSD 6 (including wireless card!)
* Boot from USB key
* Hardware RAID cards: All supported by FreeBSD 6
* Software RAID 0, 1 and 5
* Management of the groups and the users (Local User authentication and Microsoft Domain)
HTH
-bdt
You'd be able to plug this (headless, it's managed by internal web page) box directly to your router and NOT get locked into some-or other propietary system! As an added bonus, you can try this out for free to see whether it'll meet your needs before going onto spending actual money!
Quick teaser from the site:
FreeNAS support in the current release:
* Filesystem: UFS, FAT32, EXT2/EXT3, NTFS (limited read-only)
* Protocol: CIFS (samba) , FTP, NFS, SSH, RSYNC and AFP
* Hard drive: ATA/SATA, SCSI, USB and Firewire
* GPT/EFI partitionning for hard drive bigger than 2TB
* Networks cards: All supported by FreeBSD 6 (including wireless card!)
* Boot from USB key
* Hardware RAID cards: All supported by FreeBSD 6
* Software RAID 0, 1 and 5
* Management of the groups and the users (Local User authentication and Microsoft Domain)
HTH
-bdt
Angellus do a google for NAS (network attached storage) u plug a hdd in and its available to the network 24/7 (granted its on), never tried it so im not sure of performance
check this link out http://www.tomsnetworking.com/nas/index.html
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check this link out http://www.tomsnetworking.com/nas/index.html
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Person
Banned
The only thing i can think of what would work is the :
ASUS® 54Mbps 802.11g WLAN Hard Drive Disk(Support IDE Drive,Adapt 2.5" Slim)-Real Time Clock,Auto Copy, HDD Prescan.World No 1 @ 749 .00. You can then buy anysize 2.5" Drioe and put it into the WLAN drive bay.
Other option install media center ,and use the lan sharing option and just run the info off the other Pc's via lan.
ASUS® 54Mbps 802.11g WLAN Hard Drive Disk(Support IDE Drive,Adapt 2.5" Slim)-Real Time Clock,Auto Copy, HDD Prescan.World No 1 @ 749 .00. You can then buy anysize 2.5" Drioe and put it into the WLAN drive bay.
Other option install media center ,and use the lan sharing option and just run the info off the other Pc's via lan.