That's the drive I was looking to use. My current HTPC is an overclocked Athlon with 6 250GB SATA drives and another 80GB boot drive so it's sucking power like crazy. Which is one of the reasons I'm looking to replace it.
I wonder how those power saving drives work in a RAID array and what sort of effect negative effect it has? ----- Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Robert Martin Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You used to be able to install Twonky to the ReadyNAS line of products > although I never used it. It comes with a version of the linux wizd media > server preinstalled and this works well with my linkplayer2. In fact I was > using wizd before I bought the readynas and was surprised to see the same > screen the first time I pulled it up. I'd check the readynas forum first and > make sure it runs well for most users. > > I'm actually just using the readynas nv+ to archive my movies and shows > now, but purchased a 1TB WD HDD to put in my pentium-m server and will be > using that to serve media files 24/7. The readynas will only get powered on > occasionally to restore files & hold everything. I only have 1.3 TB of > space on my readynas nv+, so most of my favorite movies and shows will > easily fit a 1 TB HDD. The electricity cost of running 1 large drive in a > pentium-m server, will be much less than leaving a 4 drive NAS box running > 24/7. Plus it's the new WD drive that alters it's spin speed varying from > 5400-7200 as demand increases. It's supposed to use a lot less power. > > lopaka > > Brian Weeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Right now I'm using the > TwonkyMediaServer to serve content from my HTPC to > my D-link DSM-520 and it works beautifully, as long as the whole browser > election thing isn't disrupting the entire network. Would I be able to > install that on the ReadyNAS? Or would I need an actual full windows > install? The 520 is listed as supported on the Infrant Wiki but I found > the > D-link media server software to be horrible and the Twonky one much > better. > > The ReadyNAS NV+ with no drives is about $900 on Newegg as a "sale" price. > They are $1,050 on Netgear's site. Figure you need another $1200 for 4 1 > TB > drives. Pretty pricey for just a plain box, could build a full windows > home > server for that much. > > I have been using IP addresses to map all my shares for a while now as > well > and it works fine, except for random network-wide drop outs which I am > pretty sure are related to browser elections. > > ----- > Brian Weeden > Technical Consultant > Secure World Foundation > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Robert Martin Jr. > wrote: > > > Thankfully I bought my ReadyNAS NV while Infrant was still in charge. > Now > > that Netgear owns them they raised prices on everything without actually > > improving any of the technology. I paid $550 2 years ago and got > upgraded to > > an NV+ about a month ago when my NV started having problems. They cost > twice > > as much now ??? > > > > It generally works very well as long as you're using supported hard > > drives. I serve media to 2 Xbox media centers, 2 computers and one > network > > DVD player (Avel Linkplayer2) > > > > I have run in to similar issues with the name resolution, so I only use > IP > > addresses when mapping drives and shares. I have no MAC experience so I > > can't be much help there. > > > > I also have a DLink DSM-G600 but although it works well as a standard > NAS, > > the media server is not recognized by my network DVD player. The XBMCs > can > > use it fine by just mapping the shares. I believe the DSM-G600 only > supports > > a 500GB drive though, although some users have higher capacity drives > > running fine. > > > > lopaka > > > > Brian Weeden > wrote: I've posted here before about > > this problem and really haven't solved > > anything yet. For those that haven't heard my ranting before, the issue > > with the Windows on a peer-to-peer network and browsing. If you have a > > server that is actually managing a domain, that server will maintain a > > list > > of which computer name is associated with which IP address on the > network. > > So if I tell my machine to connect to "media" the domain server says "oh > > that's actually 192.169.0.4" or whatever. If there isn't a domain > > controller (ie the network is just peers) one machine will maintain the > > browser list of all the mappings. If something happens, the computer > will > > force an election and the new machine will be the browser. > > > > Sounds great in theory but my experience it has been absolutely > horrible. > > Over the last few years I have had off and on problems, ranging from > > simple > > annoyances like not being able to see any machines listed under "My > > Network > > Places" to massive network slowdowns and inability to transfer even 20MB > > files due to browser elections dropping connections. I have tried many > > solutions with the current being to change the registry in all my > machines > > save one to never maintain the browser list and disabling the browser > > service as well. The one machine which is my media server has that same > > registry key set to "always" and has the service running. > > > > But recently I've found another issue - my wife's MacBook has started to > > participate in this whole mess. A couple of days ago I was going > through > > the event viewer trying to figure out why the network had gone to hell > and > > saw an entry saying that the MacBook had denied access to an IP and > forced > > an election. Getting the MacBook to stop doing that is beyond my > limited > > OSX knowledge. > > > > So, now I'm looking for solutions. I need to rebuild my HTPC / media > > server > > and wanted to see if I could find a solution in that. I really want to > > (try) and cut down on the power used so I was thinking of replacing the > > whole thing with a NAS box and a small set top like an Apple TV or > D-Link > > box. I was doing some research and noticed that all these NAS solutions > > support different filesharing protocols, like CIFS, SMB, AFP, NFS, etc. > > What's the different between these and the normal protocols that are > used > > when you share a drive within Windows? Do they result in more efficient > > use > > of the network bandwidth? > > > > Why are the ReadyNAS boxes so darn expensive (almost $1000 on Newegg for > > diskless NV+)? What are other good options? I need something that will > > support at least 3 TB of storage (ie 4x 1TB SATA drives) in RAID 5 and > > preferably something can I can daisy chain another to to hit my goal of > 6 > > TB > > (ie 4x8 1TB SATA in RAID 5). > > > > Aside from setting up a domain controller, can anyone think of other > ways > > to > > help with my problem of the master browser issue and overall poor > network > > performance? Would running a Windows Home Server box help at all? Or > > would > > a *nix server be better? I have some experience with *nix (specifically > > Ubuntu)? > > > > ----- > > Brian Weeden > > Technical Consultant > > Secure World Foundation > > > > > >
