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In the UK, a company called span.com does external drives that connect
via ethernet. Have a look on their website. If it's available here, it will be more so in the US. Probably also about $70 minus the drive itself. Probably a piece of crap too...Anyone tried it? |
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Peter wrote:
In the UK, a company called span.com does external drives that connect via ethernet. Have a look on their website. If it's available here, it will be more so in the US. Probably also about $70 minus the drive itself. Probably a piece of crap too...Anyone tried it? I'll most likely be getting one in to test. Will post details if and when. Odie -- Retrodata www.retrodata.co.uk Globally Local Data Recovery Experts |
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Odie Ferrouswrote:
I simply cannot believe you are actually spending so much time on a product that clearly is a pile of sh!t. Get rid of it. Get something decent. Stop clogging up the newsgroup with drivel concerning what is nothing more than a toy. And a bad one, at that. Good grief. If you're serious about your data, then do something serious about it - don't get a pile of cr@p and expect it to perform. Absolutely mindless. Give it up. And take your posts to "alt.mindless.drivel" in future. OD I don't know what your problem is with this product, Ferrous. And since when it is "clogging up a newsgroup" to post problems and troubleshooting tips? That's what this newsgroup is for. Before giving your two cents, I'd like to know -- do you own the product you are so much against? Are you in this forum to offer help or do you work for Span.com pushing their NAS? I have the Tritton/Argosy NAS and with the newest firmware update it has been a great buy. The speed has been on par with most other NAS. My biggest complaint is its poor Samba support, but it's a trade off I'm willing to make for an NAS that cost less than a hundred bucks. If you're not going to help with troubleshooting, how about taking your comments somewhere else. |
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"eds" wrote in message ...
I don't know what your problem is with this product, Ferrous. And since when it is "clogging up a newsgroup" to post problems and troubleshooting tips? That's what this newsgroup is for. Before giving your two cents, I'd like to know -- do you own the product you are so much against? Are you in this forum to offer help or do you work for Span.com pushing their NAS? I have the Tritton/Argosy NAS and with the newest firmware update it has been a great buy. The speed has been on par with most other NAS. My biggest complaint is its poor Samba support, but it's a trade off I'm willing to make for an NAS that cost less than a hundred bucks. If you're not going to help with troubleshooting, how about taking your comments somewhere else. There are good NAS built upon Linux embedded, perhaps XP embedded too. I doubt the Argosy is, as there are far too many bugs. I does appear to be junk. |
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So far, I have found Argosy Support to be very responsive to my input
concerning the problem I described. I have traded several emails with them in as many days and they are clearly working on the issue. The HD363N is not quite ready to fulfill all the roles that people have come up with, but if Argosy and Tritton continue to support firmware development for it, the final product is very close at hand, I'm sure. I suspect that writing firmware to emulate a portion of a Windows operating system along with other things like Samba, etc., is not a trivial task and it should only be expected that a number of hidden or subtle bugs would emerge over time. For those of you simply trolling this thread, keep in mind that most of the issues described here were resolved months ago. The latest NetHDD006-1013 firmware rev has addressed pretty much everything that remained. The bug I described a day ago is actually a little tougher to reproduce than I initially outlined, but Argosy is on top of it, it appears. I will post updates as appropriate. Junk? I see no basis for such an opinion. This device has evolved quickly over the last few months and should prove quite capable for most users. |
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eds wrote:
Odie Ferrouswrote: I simply cannot believe you are actually spending so much time on a product that clearly is a pile of sh!t. Get rid of it. Get something decent. Stop clogging up the newsgroup with drivel concerning what is nothing more than a toy. And a bad one, at that. Good grief. If you're serious about your data, then do something serious about it - don't get a pile of cr@p and expect it to perform. Absolutely mindless. Give it up. And take your posts to "alt.mindless.drivel" in future. OD I don't know what your problem is with this product, Ferrous. And since when it is "clogging up a newsgroup" to post problems and troubleshooting tips? That's what this newsgroup is for. Before giving your two cents, I'd like to know -- do you own the product you are so much against? Are you in this forum to offer help or do you work for Span.com pushing their NAS? I have the Tritton/Argosy NAS and with the newest firmware update it has been a great buy. The speed has been on par with most other NAS. My biggest complaint is its poor Samba support, but it's a trade off I'm willing to make for an NAS that cost less than a hundred bucks. If you're not going to help with troubleshooting, how about taking your comments somewhere else. My frustration is more with the vendors / manufacturers of these products and how they manage to persuade prospective buyers that they are fit for purpose. I can understand the user's equal frustration at not being able to get it to work properly, but surely time should have been called on this issue? Sure, if the device were a "proper" NAS device costing $000s then I could side fully with him. But beating your head about over something that costs so little and is clearly mickey mouse-ish - no thanks. There doesn't appear to be a viable solution for the user other than to return it to its place of purchase. To drag it through the group on a nearly daily basis is pretty mind-numbing. Odie -- Retrodata www.retrodata.co.uk Globally Local Data Recovery Experts |
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I agree. I have been using this product since its initial debut and
though buggy at first, the latest firmware seems to work quite well. I have had no problems with it thus far. You have to think that just because Person A has problems, Person B may not. Factors include software running on the computer, routers, switches, and all. The same is true for any piece of hardware. Like printers--I know plenty of people who love HP printers and have had no problems with them. But I also know people who experience one problem with them and they then think all HP products are crap. If the problems someone experiences are not reproduceable by others, or by a select few, then perhaps you should all look at the common factors involved, down to the smallest detail. |
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Here's a list of the NAS devices I was checking out before settling on
the Tritton/Argosy unit. Mac support was a big deal to me but what really cinched it was this thread and the fact that there seems to be some real support and refinement from the manufacturer. Yes, it seemed to have been released a little early, but the unit seems to be a lot more robust now. Inexpensive NAS list: Tritton Simple NAS TRI-NSS001 – Main Company? [b:e0908a6da7]Argosy HD363N IONi HD363N Inno-Tide MediaSonic HD363N Cintre NAS100 V-gear LANDISK Bytecc ME-850[/b:e0908a6da7] Same unit ? No USB for add on drives Mac support $59 cheapest [b:e0908a6da7]Hawking Net-Stor Hawking HNAS1 ADS NAS-806-EF[/b:e0908a6da7][list:e0908a6da7]Same unit? Drive size limited to 250MB No USB for add on drives No Mac support $94[/list:u:e0908a6da7] [b:e0908a6da7]LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini[/b:e0908a6da7] [b:e0908a6da7]Western Digital Net Center[/b:e0908a6da7] [b:e0908a6da7] NetGear SC101[/b:e0908a6da7][list:e0908a6da7]DHCP only, cannot set to static No SAMBA implementation-- Linux and Mac users cannot use it.[/list:u:e0908a6da7] [b:e0908a6da7]Maxtor NAS Simple Tech[/b:e0908a6da7][list:e0908a6da7]Includes HD?[/list:u:e0908a6da7] [b:e0908a6da7]Buffalo Technology Linkstation[/b:e0908a6da7] [b:e0908a6da7]Iomega NAS 100D[/b:e0908a6da7][list:e0908a6da7]Includes HD USB $363[/list:u:e0908a6da7] This is just info I have pieced together from various websites/forums... does this look right? |
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I'm looking into getting one of these drives for multiple purposes....
well ok.... like 2. 1) to have my mp3/FLAC collection accessible to all my computers (2 desktops + 1laptop0 as well as my modded xbox running XBOX Media Center. 2) to have my videos accessible via XBOX Media Center 3) Possibly use as a download space, instead of my PC. i have a couple of questions; I've been looking over this thread, i read that almost all major bugs have been fixed, what if any still exist? Has anyone tried one of these with xbox media center. I know XBMC can access Samba and SMB shares. If I share a folder on my pC, xBmc can access it using the workgroup samba. Can I pre-format a drive? The drive I'm planning on using (Maxtor 200G) is already in my PC. I was wondering if I can format it to FAT32 32k clusters, and then load up my mp3/flac/video collections and then just put that drive into the NAS unit. or do i have to format it using the NAS's software? thank you. |
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