Infrant Technologies has two great products, the ReadyNAS 600, and the ReadyNAS X6. The difference is that the X6 does all of the configuration for you and the 600 is more user controlled.
I own the X6 and love it.
- It's GBE is very fast.
- It supports raid-5 with up to 4 drives. (mirroring on 2 drives)
- You can just keep adding bigger drives. so it'll be highly expandable down the road.
- Supports SMB, NFS, FTP, etc.
It's $600 for the unit with no drives.
Check out the toms networking review, it's linked from Infrants site.
>> "The Beam it software gets some info from the CD, to identify it. Then it sends that info to mp3.com, to match with their database. If they have that CD in their database, you can listen to the songs from the CD online.
>> Question: What's the point? If I have the CD, and I have a CD drive, then play the damn thing. As for being portable, CD's are easily portable now"
I thought the same thing at first. Whats the point? However you only need their software to verify that you own the cd's. After you have beamed over your cd info, all you need to listen to the songs are a web browser and a program that can play.m3u files.
Assuming they have all your cd's at mp3.com you could have youre entire collection available on line - from anywhere. Thats whats cool.
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I own the X6 and love it.
- It's GBE is very fast.
- It supports raid-5 with up to 4 drives. (mirroring on 2 drives)
- You can just keep adding bigger drives. so it'll be highly expandable down the road.
- Supports SMB, NFS, FTP, etc.
It's $600 for the unit with no drives.
Check out the toms networking review, it's linked from Infrants site.
that CD in their database, you can listen to the songs from the CD online.
>> Question: What's the point? If I have the CD, and I have a CD drive, then play the damn thing. As for being portable, CD's are easily portable
now"
I thought the same thing at first. Whats the point?
However you only need their software to verify that you own the cd's. After you have beamed over your cd info, all you need to listen to the songs are a web browser and a program that can play
Assuming they have all your cd's at mp3.com you could have youre entire collection available on line - from anywhere. Thats whats cool.