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    FreeNAS under VirtualBox on WinXP Pro - doesn't see Firewire drive

    Yeah, I was gonna do the cheesy "Bump" thing, but decided against it. If you (or anyone) has any insight, it would be most appreciated...there's a surprising dearth of info about running FreeNAS under VirtualBox to be had....
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    FreeNAS under VirtualBox on WinXP Pro - doesn't see Firewire drive

    I'm a newbie at this, it's true, so please bear with me.... I decided to boot my HP laptop with a FreeNAS CD on bare metal, just to see if it would recognize the Firewire port -- it did: However, when I load the virtual FreeNAS machine under VirtualBox, there are no "fw...." entries in...
  3. M

    FreeNAS under VirtualBox on WinXP Pro - doesn't see Firewire drive

    I've had a bare metal FreeNAS box working like a champ for months now, and thought I'd try to set up a virtual one using an old HP laptop running WinXP Pro SP3. In VirtualBox, I created a machine and installed the latest stable build of FreeNAS. So far, so good. I wanted to add a Firewire...
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    Diary Of My Switch To Internet TV

    From MacRumors.com today.... Per what's being discussed here: http://www.macrumors.com/2010/03/23/analyst-continues-to-believe-apple-will-launch-internet-connected-tv/ Looks like Apple could dominate all digital content the way they dominate digital audio content. If they do it right...
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    Diary Of My Switch To Internet TV

    Of that I have no doubt...but if they're somehow re-broadcasting these pay-content provider signals (HBO, Showtime, etc.), I'd love to know how they could possibly be legally allowed to do that? Because even if the signal and quality are sh*t, it's the difference between being able to view pay...
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    Diary Of My Switch To Internet TV

    Scam? Does anyone know anything about this? streamdirecttv.com This is the sort of thing which, if it actually does what it says, would represent a seismic shift in pay content delivery -- and solve a lot of the issues expressed in this thread. But with promises so huge -- and a...
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    Diary Of My Switch To Internet TV

    Price complaints I've been seriously considering cutting the cable cord, too...and the recent rumors that Apple possibly might be coming out with an HDMI-equipped Mac Mini got me even more interested. Frankly, though, I'm a little perplexed by the seeming-obsession with the cost of the...
  8. M

    FreeNAS - possible to add a disk for RAID1?

    Hi.... I have a working FreeNAS server with one 300GB ATA HDD. I've got my MP3 and digital photo collection on the drive, and everything works great. This may be a naive question, but is there a reasonably straightforward method* for adding another (identical) HDD to the system and, after...
  9. M

    iTunes playlist / FreeNAS / Firefly / FUPPES - no joy

    iTunes / FreeNAS workaround After putting this issue aside for a while, I decided to get back into it and see if I could finally get something working. A Google search or two later, I stumbled upon this blog entry: http://brockangelo.com/2008/10/25/sharing-itunes-with-multiple-users/...
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    Mac Mini as NAS?

    If I were to do this, I don't think I'd care much about an external multi-drive FW800 box. I'd rather have data drive backups I can easily rotate off-site. It seems like NewerTech has everything I might need. I'm thinking something like this (with 1TB inside) as an external FW800 data drive...
  11. M

    Apple Time Capsule Review?

    Would that also apply to the new Airport Extreme?
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    Mac Mini as NAS?

    Seeing the new Mac Minis just out -- now with Firewire 800 -- I had to wonder what people's thoughts were about using the Mini as a NAS/home media server, using an attached external F/W 800 (let's say, 1TB or so) drive as the main storage. It does sound like a very cool way to not only get a...
  13. M

    iTunes playlist / FreeNAS / Firefly / FUPPES - no joy

    Thanks, Tim...that's the weird bit. I did set my iTunes to the NAS's "Media\Music" directory, where all my mp3s are stored. And iTunes didn't find any files. Weird. I'm definitely doing something wrong...I just don't know what. Yet. Help!
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    iTunes playlist / FreeNAS / Firefly / FUPPES - no joy

    I may be a networking newbie, but I'm not an idiot. So clearly, I must be missing something here. I recently put aside my search for the "perfect" home NAS/media server, and took my old P4 Dell Dimension out of the basement and loaded up FreeNAS. To my surprise (with lots of help from...
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    Your thoughts about QNAP TS-109 II

    Without getting in the middle of this, I'll only add that I tried to get a straight answer from someone at QNAP -- I had been in contact previously with a guy named Albert Lin, and I sent him a note a couple weeks ago wherein I asked: It's my intention, on a weekly basis, to backup/clone the...
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    Your thoughts about QNAP TS-109 II

    The obvious question this begs is, if not a QNAP single-disk NAS product (or Synology or Thecus or Iomega, etc.), then what's the best solution for someone who wants to be able to efficiently (read quickly) backup NAS data to external storage? I had completely dismissed the idea of...
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    A hard-to-beat combination....

    Well, okay.... Okay...I meant fast, hoping that robust would be somewhere nearby.;) In the interest of full disclosure, I know nothing about Linux (other than how to spell it). So 'rsync' and 'cp' go right over my head...presumably, a function in the NAS's interface executes those commands...
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    A hard-to-beat combination....

    From another thread.... The thread "Your thoughts about QNAP TS-109 II," started by a member named "Cino," just received a reply to a posting I made, concerning the backup issue we're discussing here. It's from a member named "Osamede," and here's the post. Tim, after I mentioned that I...
  19. M

    A hard-to-beat combination....

    Okay...thanks, Tim. So, to finally put this badly-beaten horse in its grave, let me ask one last question.... Given what is known about the Seagate ST31500341AS, the Thermaltake BlacX, and the Qnap TS-109 Pro II, does anyone think that these devices, acting in concert, would provide eSATA...
  20. M

    A hard-to-beat combination....

    Gotcha.... Here's the transfer rate specification on the Thermaltake "toaster enclosure" I'm looking at: "Supports eSATA Transfer Speed up to 3Gbps" So, as you point out, the possible choke point would be if the SoC architecture of the QNAP TS-109 Pro II itself can sustain that type of...
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