[mythtv-users] NAS with flash drive?

Jim Stichnoth stichnot at gmail.com
Tue Sep 15 23:51:17 UTC 2009


On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 September 2009 17:40:50 bhaskins at chartermi.net wrote:
>> I hope this isn't too far off topic but does anyone know of a
>> Myth-friendly NAS that can run with just a flash drive?
>> I need to address a fairly small amount of dat from several
>> different points.
>> No security worries involved.
>> Not too expensive if possible.
>
> LOTs of possible answers, but you might consider a slug (Linksys NSLU2), or
> one of the SheevaPlug devices, if performance is not a major comsideration.
>
> http://www.nslu2-linux.org/
>
> Or even one of the third-party firmwares what will run on a router-type
> device, (tomato, dd-wrt etc.) some of them have USB ports you could plug a
> flash device into, and share it out via NFS or Samba.
>
> These are all sub-$100 solutions.

But what does "Myth-friendly" mean?  Will this double as a frontend?
Slave backend?  Jobqueue server?  These solutions probably don't work
if they are also to run Myth software.

Jim


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