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gjchester

Flimber wrote: »

This the one with the poor Amazon reviews and which can't be NTFS-formatted ?

Why do you need NTFS?

Network attatched devices (music players etc) usually prefer FAT32 anyway.

If your storing DVD's on a LAN then do you actually get a good enough data rate across the lan for them to play without juddering? You could always use dvd shrink to take off some of the extra's to ensure it fits.

Whirly

Actually I was also thinking "Why store a DVD on a NAS?"

Then I thought, "Ah, but he may want to store HD movies, and they can be 8Gb+".

Oh, and yes, you can stream a DVD across a 100mbps network.

withabix

Whirly wrote: »

Oh, and yes, you can stream a DVD across a 100mbps network.

Yup! I've got a Freecom 350HD to do that for me, at 1080P HD as well!

gromituk

Whirly wrote: »

NTFS is a microsoft technology and as most NAS's are based on some form of Linux NTFS is out of the question (IIRC Linux can read NTFS but is not perfect at writing it).

Luckly that problem has now been solved with fuseblk and the most recent Linux distributions (such as Ubuntu 7.10 which I'm using now) mount your Windows partitions read/write by default. I can imagine that legal/licensing issues would prevent the disks being NTFS formatted though.

Then I thought, "Ah, but he may want to store HD movies, and they can be 8Gb+".

Then use a Linux file system such as ext3, for which you can get Windows drivers if you want to plug it into a Windows machine.

withabix

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shellsuit

withabix wrote: »

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I've just got the N40i for OH for £129.99 from a Tesco 'home' store.

Pjcity

Got one (NAS) this evening from Bolton branch, they had one left after mine.... Will try install tomorrow and let you know speeds / ease of use etc

Browntoa

also got the NAS, still working out how the password thing works for private drives but its working fine

Pjcity

Sorry for the delay in posting...

Got mine working no problems, nice and simple web browser but it is not the quickest in the world.... I am only using mine for storage and music streaming short term so ok for me....

I too am having problems with accessing the public folders... strange

dc

The Personal emailed vouchers are back too, just got £5 off £40 spend, use by 20/12.

I know my local had 2 of the Smart drives which were spirited away at £159 into the back as part of a tidy up/change of manager. Really waiting till they reduce the Buffalo 500gig media NAS, in Jan or Feb.