Boy o Boy! Choices Choices Choices! Mark, sure sounds like you know your stuff inside out! Very kind of you to list the options in levels of difficulty so I know what I'm up against, and going by that list I don't think I should even think about hacking a nas - cheers for that!! - as I was thinking.....sends shivers, just imaginging the amount of time and frustration I could have gone through - CHEERS!
I must say I do like the sound of option 3, as the 300AMD already has 98 on it, and I guess as ClarkConnect gives the web page control the pc can run headless(poor thing) which would be cool. So I guess I would go for the xp SS program and stick that on the 300AMD 98 machine? ShowStopper - hmmmmm I remember updating the BIOS about two years ago and nothing was metioned about increasing the hdd size on the notes - the update was not exactly an up to date update. The thing is in storage at the moment so as soon as the office is decorated I can ivestigate further - fingers crossed! I think its got 300 odd MB of RAM, so should be ok on that side of things werhay! I do remember having trouble getting the 300AMDwin98 seeing the xp laptop, but the laptop could copy to and from the 300, I guess the SBox would work in the same way as the laptop. Low power and low noise :) Kevin thanks for throwing a spanner in :) the old Infrants are a bit pricy a! but I guess that would mean no fiddling with the 300AMD and enclosures and cards. Oh, do you know if the XRAID thing can be turned off so its just storage? Sorry thinking more, can different sized hdd's be used? Quite a difference in pricing, external cases and hdd's works out by far the cheapest... Simple and no fuss..(one hopes) solution of the nas with slimserver - so much more expensive.... I suppose it comes down to - is it worth the extra £440ish for the Infrant and save on pc on and off and attempting to get a server on line. Bit more reserch required I think. Cheers for the comments and info so far! -- Deaf Cat ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Deaf Cat's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=515 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24286 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
