I got the ReadyNAS NV a few months ago. I put it on my LAN and have only shut it down once when I thought a tornado was coming through. It has not missed a beat, upgrades easily, when upgrades are available, and is reliable. It has 4 SATA slots so is good for 1.8TB Raid5 with currently available hard drives. Can be bought with as little as single 250GB drive and upgraded later.
The Slim GUI is slower than running it on a PC, but not too bad. Scanning is slower, but I use Music Folder navigation mostly anyway. The fan is always on and it is LOUD! Forget about putting it next to your stereo, it needs a closet or basement with LAN connection. I put it in my kids TV room to annoy them. You can only run the latest officially released version of SlimServer on the ReadyNAS, because it must be compiled by Infrant to run under their OS, and they don't recompile and post nightly updates. It was a mighty long wait to get the latest version with all the bug fixes (6.2.2?) Naturally it costs more, but the power savings, remote location, always on, built in web, print, DHCP, slim and FTP servers, and reliability of RAID5 make it worth it to me. It has lightning fast data input and output so can stream HDTV or several surveillance cameras no problem. I have recorded 8 tracks of 24/96 audio to it over 100Mbit LAN, no problem. Good service, fast responses from tech support, active online forum. Direct transfer of camera memory without a puter. Flexible backup server built in too. Rich -- richidoo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ richidoo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3097 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24428 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
