Ah I meant the Buffalo isn't fast enough to utilize gigabit, as in it won't transfer above 10 or 20mb/s..
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Ah I meant the Buffalo isn't fast enough to utilize gigabit, as in it won't transfer above 10 or 20mb/s..
nix the working fine so far for the Iomega ix2, got an email from it this weekend saying one of the HD's died. Iomega is sending a replacement unit.
The more I think about this, the more I think buying a small PC might be the most robust answer. And not very expensive, considering the cost of PC's on the used market. I'm going to look into getting a smallish form factor, low power consumption PC, with a second hard drive for the media which can be slept when not in use. I might even look into running the OS off a flash card to save power. (A Mac Mini would work too, but frankly I can build a little PC for much less.)
I'm very interested in checking out TVersity for the media server stuff.
I'm very interested in checking out TVersity for the media server stuff.
I have also thought about this way of doing things, having built my own PCs in the past. This might be a fairly good solution if you have a box of bits to cannibalise, but as I have been running reliable Macs for nearly ten years now, I have no bits to use!
I have no bits either, but I've been looking into what's available to me locally. My brother tells me one of the local university computer labs is selling off older PC's. For $50 I can get an Athlon 1.4 GHz with 512 MB RAM, 20 gig hard drive and Windows XP Pro. It even comes with a 19" CRT if I so desire (I think I'll pass).
I'll buy a large media drive to add on, and either use Windows to run a file server and a media server like TVersity, or install Linux and do something similar.