[mythtv-users] Warning/ Info About Network Disk from Unity Electronics

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Thu Jun 15 20:21:37 UTC 2006


I received the pair of network drives that I ordered the other day  
from Unity Electronics,

Couple of things folks should know:

Somehow I had believed that they were 2.5" drives, and we all know  
that a 120GB NBB drive is a $150 item. Turns out that the drive in  
the case appears to be a 3.5" drive, I'm not sure if this was their  
error or mine at this point.

Also, I had assumed that the "network server" in the case would be a  
samba server, as are many other devices of this type. In fact it is  
an "NDAS" server, something I had never heard of before, but it  
treats the drive more as a directly attached disk and not an NAS device.

Not really a problem, drivers are available for Mac and Linux, as  
well as the supplied Windows drivers, and so far it seems to be much  
faster than either an NFS or a Samba attached drive, great for video,  
but there are apparently some limitations on multiple machines trying  
simultaneous writes, something a Myth system is unlikely to want to  
do with a video file anyway.

I still think I got a good deal for the $79, in fact I may pick up a  
couple more.

If anyone bought one on my say so, and has a problem with the  
discrepancies, I'd be willing to buy one or two from such users.

Sorry to use up bandwidth here for this, and I'll certainly be more  
careful about posting "deals" in the future :-)

Brian Wood
beww at beww.org





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