[mythtv-users] OT: which NAS-appliance can you recommand

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Mon Apr 2 15:02:32 UTC 2007


On Apr 2, 2007, at 8:46 AM, Fedor Pikus wrote:

> On 4/2/07, Yann Lehmann <aristide at tiscali.ch> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I am considering "outsourcing" the storage part of my be/fe to a  
>> NAS-appliance.
>>
>> I had a look at devices from Synology (ds-106e) and Thecus  
>> (n2100). Are some
>> of you myth-user using these ? Or other ?
>>
>> If yes, has the Synology enouph oomph to replace the mysql-server  
>> on the
>> backend ?
>>
>> Thank you for your advices (can also be off-list).
>
> Never used those, but can recommend one to avoid: Iomega StorCenter
> 1TB. I returned mine to the store after 3 days, it would pull itself
> off the net after transferring several GB and had to be rebooted.
>

That sounds like good advice.

The first question I would ask the OP is how many videos he is  
planning to pull off /put on the device, and are any of them HD?

The little NSLU2s (aka slugs) can be had really cheap, but they are  
not fast enough to do more than 1 or possibly 2 SD files at a time,  
and I don't think I'd try HD with one, but they are cheap.

Just about any old cheap PC can be used to NFS mount drives onto your  
network. You can literally get them for almost nothing these days.

But if power consumption, noise or heat is a factor one of the  
smaller solutions is perhaps worth the cost.

Brian Wood
beww at beww.org





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