can anyone recommend me any good ones? good makes and the like?

i know nothing about this kind of thing, except maybe that kingston is a good make for memory and stuff.

any more info?

oh, and for those who dont know; a network attached storage device is p. much an external HD for your router.

I guess you have to make sure it is high bandwidth. If you want to stream over a wireless connection you have to make sure it's a good connection and that it is of high enough bitrate otherwise you end up with a choppy playback situation like my friend had with his home cinema setup.

You can't really use one of these to store files you are working on that tend to be large in nature, for instance networking and music production are a bit of a no, that's something that needs to be on your local HD.

Any sort of streaming activity though, that should be fine. So your music and film collection.

I guess you have to make sure it is high bandwidth. If you want to stream over a wireless connection you have to make sure it's a good connection and that it is of high enough bitrate otherwise you end up with a choppy playback situation like my friend had with his home cinema setup.

You can't really use one of these to store files you are working on that tend to be large in nature, for instance networking and music production are a bit of a no, that's something that needs to be on your local HD.

Any sort of streaming activity though, that should be fine. So your music and film collection.

yeah this is pretty much exactly what we need to do.

if i can't stream films off it well enough i dont think it'd be hassle to copy them over before we watch them.

looking at ebuyer the cheapest ones look like this:
Buffalo Drivestation 2share 500GB - £72.29   ==   $120.46
Buffalo Linkstation Live 750GB - £87.99  ==  $146.62
Lacie Network Space 1TB - £97.98  ==  $163.26

We have a buffalo router off ebuyer and it was cheap and cheerful. Never crashed, had good range (3 floors including an attic) and it was £35. My friends in another house bought a £130 Linksys tower with like 100 antennae on it and it broke and had to be sent to the czech republic to be repaired and they were without internet for 4 weeks.

I made sure to rub that in.

haha sounds good. i got a buffalo wireless router as well and its really fast. so yeah it looks like a good choice.

my bro suggested a lacie but its a shame they dont do smaller than 1tb. i dont think i need that much

Here:
http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=12438666

615 bucks for 5TB of storage that will torrent for you 24/7 and never run your electricity bill up and that is probably totally silent (the hard drives will put out a bit of heat but the rest of the hardware will not). If you already have the hard drives, then it would cost you just as much as an empty NAS, around 250, and that would probably only support 2TB or less, whereas this can RAID or do whatever you want.

Yeah considering JMickle is a teenager I doubt he has access to funds to import a mass-torrenting silent server from the USA unless there is something he isn't telling us and he is in fact Lord J of Mickle Manor.

Here:
http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=12438666

615 bucks for 5TB of storage that will torrent for you 24/7 and never run your electricity bill up and that is probably totally silent (the hard drives will put out a bit of heat but the rest of the hardware will not). If you already have the hard drives, then it would cost you just as much as an empty NAS, around 250, and that would probably only support 2TB or less, whereas this can RAID or do whatever you want.

what? never run your electricity bill up? 500w power supply?

personal tastes but yeah i looked at NASs before and it's much cheaper and probably more useful to get an old second hand computer and set it up as a blind box. if you get one made past 2001 or so you can do some pretty cool stuff, wake on lan and unstably low clock speeds etc.

what? never run your electricity bill up? 500w power supply?

You realize that power supplies that are energy efficient do not draw 500w if the computer is not requiring 500w. That setup will probably use less than 100w, hell the processor is 35.

you realise that if a power supply is rated at 500W (and they're not lying) that's the maximum output, not the draw? power is lost in the transformation process and while a 500w psu may be more efficient than a 400w at sustaining 400 watts of output it will be less efficient when only giving 100 watts due to capital costs.

you wouldn't get that rig under 60 watts torrenting, and if you had it going 24/7 that'd put a noticible dent in your power bill

See Jeff, in your hypothetical scenario you imagine JMickle to live like this:



whereas it would be much more sensible to assume that the average british teenager lives like this:

You should've posted those pictures at the Spontaneous MS Paint thread.

its sort of a mixture of the two tbh.

who's to say he DOESN'T live like that, ed? i know for a fact that's how climbtree lives.

so it's not a namescript. my xanadu house is pretty cool but vlad is a horrible neighbour.

is that a  castle-sized wireless router

No (yes)