| mdxx3 |
| ok i'm drooling too:) |
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| mdxx3 |
^bump
I got my terabyte network storage and media server box working since last weekend. It's a D-Link DNS-323 box with two 500 GB SATA drives. It's configured as RAID 1 (mirroring) and so the maximum data capacity will still be 500 GB with these 2 drives, but it has redundancy/backup. Also got the latest firmware flashed in there too. |
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| jhue |
| If you archive high-definition video like I do, 1TB is nothing. I add that much storage every month. My current video server has 14 hard drives and a little over 6TB of storage, and I'm about about to triple that storage by adding another tower and connecting it to the server with multi-lane eSATA. |
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| shootist |
| Yeah, well I have 640 kb of RAM. |
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| mdxx3 |
No you don't!! They misadvertised the 640 kb!! Only about 470 kb is usable. After loading the himem or emm386 drivers we'll be lucky to get around 520 kb!! ;)
(I don't have a TV - it belongs to my kids and they hid the remotes somewhere:3: ) |
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| andreseng |
| Who remembers when IBM switched from the dual 5 1/4" floppy drives to a 10MB hard drive. Remember how we thought 10MB, we'll never use all that. Now I carry something non-powered (flash) on my key chain that holds 2,000MB. And my wife's 60GB iPod is just about full......hey, what comes after TB? |
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| phins2rt |
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Originally posted by andreseng
hey, what comes after TB?
I think it's petrabye. |
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| crmsnidol |
quote:
Originally posted by mdxx3
No you don't!! They misadvertised the 640 kb!! Only about 470 kb is usable. After loading the himem or emm386 drivers we'll be lucky to get around 520 kb!! ;)
Try loading your mouse drivers into himem. :) |
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| dj-mdx2 |
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Originally posted by mdxx3
^bump
I got my terabyte network storage and media server box working since last weekend. It's a D-Link DNS-323 box with two 500 GB SATA drives. It's configured as RAID 1 (mirroring) and so the maximum data capacity will still be 500 GB with these 2 drives, but it has redundancy/backup. Also got the latest firmware flashed in there too.
Wow, this is like a year later. Glad you got it up and running. Wish I could do the same at this point. Maybe someday. |
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| mdxx3 |
| Yaaah this is indeed a year later. This was all semi-accidental for me. I bought the first HDD during the after-Thanksgiving supersale last November. I wanted to install this HDD in the home machine and install Vista on it, but didn't... bought a new laptop the following month. Then I kept looking at this new/unopened HDD and had to do something with it. So I bought this D-Link box and a second 500 HDD to do RAID. That's how it I ended up with this today... |
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| mdxx3 |
^mini-bump
Recently I got a new D-Link DSM-320RD streaming media player to go along with the DNS-323 box. It replaces my old GoVideo D2730 networked DVD player which isn't compatible with the new DNS-323 box. This DSM-320RD works pretty good. The network setup was easy-enough too (I'm using the wired method). |
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| andreseng |
Hey Phil-
Did you try the wireless, just for grins and giggles? Does it handle WPA AES encryption?
Thanks,
G |
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| mdxx3 |
Hi George, I didn't try the wireless part since I got a network port behind the TV and the CAT5E cable was already there (unplugged from the old player). I'll try this WPA AES wireless method later tonight (hopefully) and will let you know. Bye.
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| mdxx3 |
| Hey George, it doesn't do WPA AES. The closest one is WPA PSK TKIP (also has 4 other of WEP settings in this media player). I unplugged the network cable and the WPA TKIP method connects/works fine after the initial setup. Bye. |
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| jhue |
| Can't believe that anyone would purchase a networked media player in 2007 that wasn't capable of playing back high-definition content. I've had my IOData LinkPlayer 2 for years and it's fully HD capable. |
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| G. COLTON |
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Originally posted by jhue
If you archive high-definition video like I do, 1TB is nothing. I add that much storage every month. My current video server has 14 hard drives and a little over 6TB of storage, and I'm about about to triple that storage by adding another tower and connecting it to the server with multi-lane eSATA.
WOW! What is your occupation? You must be into high volume video productions.
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| andreseng |
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Originally posted by mdxx3
Hey George, it doesn't do WPA AES. The closest one is WPA PSK TKIP (also has 4 other of WEP settings in this media player). I unplugged the network cable and the WPA TKIP method connects/works fine after the initial setup. Bye.
Thanks Phil! |
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| mdxx3 |
quote:
Originally posted by jhue
Can't believe that anyone would purchase a networked media player in 2007 that wasn't capable of playing back high-definition content. I've had my IOData LinkPlayer 2 for years and it's fully HD capable.
Well, I watch about 5 to 10 hours (most of the time less) of TV a month - so it's not a priority. The last time I actually watched something on TV was last Wednesday or Thursday!! (The TV belongs to my kids and they don't know what is hi-def anyways!!) |
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| jhue |
quote:
Originally posted by mdxx3
(The TV belongs to my kids and they don't know what is hi-def anyways!!)
My wife recently made me buy a 32" high-def LCD for the kid's playroom so that the big TV would no longer be in danger from flying Wii remotes, and so we wouldn't have to watch "Happy Feet" 20 times when it comes out.
Prices have been dropping like a rock - two weeks after I got the TV comparable models were available for $100 less ($499). |
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| jhue |
quote:
Originally posted by G. COLTON
WOW! What is your occupation? You must be into high volume video productions.
There is a far more mundane and pathetic explanation for all of the archived video I have. I capture huge amounts of video because (other than storage costs) it's free and I have the equipment to do it. About 1TB of my archived HD is from two different dramatic series from network TV. Another 1TB is archived concerts from HDNet. Another three TB or so is archived HD movies (most of which I will never watch) from HBO-HD, SHO-HD, and HDNET Movies. The rest is archived F1 and WRC Rally from the past few years (standard definition, not HD). |
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| crmsnidol |
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Originally posted by jhue
There is a far more mundane and pathetic explanation for all of the archived video I have. I capture huge amounts of video because (other than storage costs) it's free and I have the equipment to do it. About 1TB of my archived HD is from two different dramatic series from network TV. Another 1TB is archived concerts from HDNet. Another three TB or so is archived HD movies (most of which I will never watch) from HBO-HD, SHO-HD, and HDNET Movies. The rest is archived F1 and WRC Rally from the past few years (standard definition, not HD).
As a neophyte home theater enthusiast who recently built his own HTPC and PJ setup, I'm hoping you can point me to a link or briefly describe your method of capturing HD content from the cable pay channels. Thanks. |
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| jhue |
quote:
Originally posted by crmsnidol
As a neophyte home theater enthusiast who recently built his own HTPC and PJ setup, I'm hoping you can point me to a link or briefly describe your method of capturing HD content from the cable pay channels. Thanks.
Take a look in the "HDTV Recorders" subforum over on AVSForum: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=42
I presently have four methods of recording and archiving HD content:
1) ATI HDTV Wonder in my Windows PC (OTA only)
2) Hauppauge WinTV HVR-950 in my Linux MythTv backend and file server (OTA only)
3) R5000HD-modified Dish network HD non-DVR receiver
4) Using PVRExplorer Pro to rip content off the hard drive of my Dish Network ViP622 DVR
All except the last are ok for discussion on AVS Forum. |
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