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Maxtor Shared Storage 300Gb NAS (Network HDD) - £89.91
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retepetsir wrote:For whoever uses wireless, it serves you right really. Of course its not going to be fast. If you want to do it justice, use wired ethernet please!!!
Ok try this...copy a couple of Gig of MP3s over to your Maxtor (wait half an hour for it to complete ...even on wired). Ok now decide you want to put ithe files into a different share on your Maxtor...therefore cut/paste....now watch open mouthed as it takes twice as long to do this simple task than it did with the original transfer.
I mean come on....a cut/paste ought to take milliseconds!0 -
It's Network Attached Storage Hank - you can't expect it to perform any differently given the 100Mbit interface. I guess it won't be any slower than doing a similar cut/paste operation on files storted on a second networked 3GHz PC, so long as they are connected by the same 100Mbit interface.
If you did want to move a few gig around on the NAS, better/faster to telnet in and do it from the host linux environment (OpenMSS required).
If it's fast external storage you're after, this is not for you. If it's a standalone file server eg for your network media player, then it's the dogs *&%^$"£.0 -
HankMcSpank wrote:Ok try this...copy a couple of Gig of MP3s over to your Maxtor (wait half an hour for it to complete ...even on wired). Ok now decide you want to put ithe files into a different share on your Maxtor...therefore cut/paste....now watch open mouthed as it takes twice as long to do this simple task than it did with the original transfer.
I mean come on....a cut/paste ought to take milliseconds!
That's just how NAS works, but I guess you didnt realise that. If you want fast storage, add another internal SATA HDD.
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Ok...my mistake then....I knew it'd be slow (as it's going over wireless), but I can't be done with the crippling effect of relocating files on the SAME drive! tis going on Ebay!0
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retepetsir wrote:For whoever uses wireless, it serves you right really. Of course its not going to be fast. If you want to do it justice, use wired ethernet please!!!
I generally agree, but given my experience when I set my kit up this evening I'm warming to wireless finally:rolleyes:
my maxtor nas 300gb with just the built in mediabolic media server + philips streamium 5500 [my new favourite thing ] + an ancient netgear MR814 802.11b wireless router.......and i'm still able to stream divx flawlessly across the wireless network.
i'm very rarely a fanboy for any particular device, but i'll make an exception for this one.
In short, do your homework, get the right kit, understand how file transfer works, then sit back relax and enjoy your movie jukebox..
thanks again to the original poster. i will now spend less time in front of my PC, which has to be a good thing, and more time in front of the tv, which probably isn't that great either.0 -
I think you'll should transfer between directories will be quicker if you use 'Drag and Drop' between 2 windows instead of Cut/Copy & Paste...
PS. Hayes branch had a 200Gb (£70) version and 3 of those 3Com wireless router/USB/PCMCIA packs (£30) in stock0 -
stevIecross wrote:There is a tickbox when you run the new software that enables media server
Could someone please explain why you have to enable the media server to be able to 'Stream' movies over WiFi?
It's just that I disabled the media server. but I can still play movies over WiFi from a 300GB Maxtor SSP.
Or is streaming different in some way?
Please explain someone.
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Ticking the "Media Server" box simply enables the MSS's uPnP server. This starts a program which scans the drive for media files, ready to publish to any device on request. Other uPnP media devices can then gather playlists of media files on the drive, and the user can select movie/track/piccie to play.
Without the uPnP server, of course you can still browse the directories manually & retrieve whatever content is there.0 -
Hmm, for the guy complaining it's slow I'm wondering if he has some seperate network issue because mine is no slower than a PC-PC transfer.
A quick check of copying 350mb MP3s from a PC to the NAS took around 40secs. The same operation SATA drive-SATA drive on the same PC took 10secs. Considering we're talking about 100mbps network limitations I think 40secs is pretty good. It's certainly not terrible!
*edit* Doing some basic maths tells me that 2gb of data should take around 4 minutes. If it is taking 30minutes+ then you need to check for packet loss on your network.
On a seperate note I want to put out a word of warning. I was messing about with the backup part of the Quick Start software on Friday. I can't remeber exactly what I did but the result was that it proceeded to completely wipe my entire boot drive. By the time I'd realised what it was doing I'd lost >90% of the contents and windows was unrecoverable. So be careful and manually backup anything you really can't afford to lose before trying the software.0 -
gooseye wrote:This starts a program which scans the drive for media files, ready to publish to any device on request.
Thanks for that.
So does enabling the media server make the drive keep 'thrashing' all the time?
It's just that when disabled, the 'thrashing' stopped. Is that normal?
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