NAS + Blue-Ray :)

technology is certainly advancing faster than the asthmatic ant with the heavy shopping!!!

Wasn't that long ago when I had my super duper 486 processor running at 20hz - though to be fair had a 50 Hz turbo button, 330Mg drive and 4 Meg of RAM!!! :lol:

Then I look at my iphone....... 16Gb - more than man tookto the mon by a long shot, and the coolest app ever......... a barcode reader using the camera - put the barcode in the viewfinder and hey it tells you where is cheapest online and locally in seconds.......
 
Lynton said:
technology is certainly advancing faster than the asthmatic ant with the heavy shopping!!!

Wasn't that long ago when I had my super duper 486 processor running at 20hz - though to be fair had a 50 Hz turbo button, 330Mg drive and 4 Meg of RAM!!! :lol:
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What do you mean i'm still using my vic20 with a massive 3.5k memory :)
 
Lynton said:
technology is certainly advancing faster than the asthmatic ant with the heavy shopping!!!

Wasn't that long ago when I had my super duper 486 processor running at 20hz - though to be fair had a 50 Hz turbo button, 330Mg drive and 4 Meg of RAM!!! :lol:

Then I look at my iphone....... 16Gb - more than man tookto the mon by a long shot, and the coolest app ever......... a barcode reader using the camera - put the barcode in the viewfinder and hey it tells you where is cheapest online and locally in seconds.......
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the turbo button made all the difference! :lol:
 
That's actually very, very neat :D

however, blue ray disks are pretty expensive still (a quick look gives £3 for a 25gb one), so copying to a hard drive might well be cheaper, and you could always take the hard drive offsite if you're after offsite backups...
 
itsdavedotnet said:
That's actually very, very neat :D

however, blue ray disks are pretty expensive still (a quick look gives £3 for a 25gb one), so copying to a hard drive might well be cheaper, and you could always take the hard drive offsite if you're after offsite backups...
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very true but its handy to make off site backups without lugging hard drives round.
sure the disks will come down in price like everything else....

Think it might be on the christmas list! :D
 
Thing is, hard drives are generally readable 1 year down the line, all those writeable optical media things are toast soon as look at them.

If you care about it, stick it on a removable hard drive.
 
Had a quick look around for reviews, because in general external NAS boxes which boast a lot of features either work, or fail miserably.
There doesn't appear to be any real information on this box. A lot of NAS systems I have looked at have failed miserably at the UPnP side of things, reporting abilities when disks fail, and some of them only have 100Mb/s connections.
It obviously only supports raid 1 or raid 0, which means that for me, it would be suitable for 1TB only (I wouldn't consider raid0)
There are cheaper places around than overclockers, by the tune of around £30 by the looks of it.
 
Lynton said:
technology is certainly advancing faster than the asthmatic ant with the heavy shopping!!!

Wasn't that long ago when I had my super duper 486 processor running at 20hz - though to be fair had a 50 Hz turbo button, 330Mg drive and 4 Meg of RAM!!! :lol:

Then I look at my iphone....... 16Gb - more than man tookto the mon by a long shot, and the coolest app ever......... a barcode reader using the camera - put the barcode in the viewfinder and hey it tells you where is cheapest online and locally in seconds.......
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i can still remember the day i bought my first 1GB double height 5.25 hard drive ... cost me £400 back then .. and i also still have my old Amstrad 8086 speed laptop ... takes 3 days to boot up off floppy disc .. was FAST back then ! :lol:
 
I used to dream of a hard drive......etc,etc;)
 
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