...a Netgear SC-101 for the sole purpose of storing my MP3s, perhaps FLACs in the near future.
http://www.netgear.com/products/details/SC101.php Never have had a single audio-drop out, and these days I rip CDs serially and listen to music on the SB3 and the Softsqueeze on the same computer -all concurrently- often. And right now doing this on top. Maybe I'll play Medal of Honor on top. :-) The way the SC-101 works is that it sits on your LAN and looks like a normal hard drive to your computer, when in fact it's Ethernet accessible and provide for mirrored drives. You just pop in 2 drives of your choice, in my case 400GB Seagates. It means that the SqB accesses the tracks through your computer, though, for those who want to totally decentralize operations (which I would think requires a dedicated server, and not just NAS, though). My SB3 has about a 75% quality wireless signal in average. Destop runs WinXPpro on an AMD Athlon 64-3000. 1G RAM. Pretty standard, except I have an internal RIAD for my everyday stuff, too (bad experiences). The SC-101 works great, I put 2 Seagate 400G drives in there, and have lots of storage, peace of mind given they are mirrored drives (knowing how many things can go wrong with technology that may be naive!), and a very ribust and stable setup. Plus strict separation of my music library from anything else. The read speed is quite decent, write speed is about 12Mbps in average, with faster bursts here and there (courtesy of buffering, I imagine), which means rip speed is not quite the scintillatingly fast experience I expected, but nevertheless very tolerable. -- pablolie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21082 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
