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

[Harry Orenstein]

On Thursday 15 June 2006 4:21 pm, Brian Wood wrote:
> 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
>
>
>

You might also want to consider this:

http://www.edn.com/article/CA6330099.html?spacedesc=features


-- Harry O.