Computer hard drive recovery

[luunta]

Re: Computer hard drive recovery

i store everything in my brain.

it's free.

[RONDAL]

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its also really small. you must not store much jess

[James]

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I also grabbed one of those dLink DNS-323 nas setups with 2x2TB drives in it. Its a piece of sh*t for media streaming, but its good for straight data storage.

2TB is already full so I ordered a 4 bay QNAP (not as pretty, but better than drobo from all the reviews I read, Ryan haha)

http://www.qnap.com/pro_detail_feature.asp?p_id=193

[stefan]

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I also grabbed one of those dLink DNS-323 nas setups with 2x2TB drives in it. Its a piece of sh*t for media streaming, but its good for straight data storage.

2TB is already full so I ordered a 4 bay QNAP (not as pretty, but better than drobo from all the reviews I read, Ryan haha)

http://www.qnap.com/pro_detail_feature.asp?p_id=193

I find its great for streaming divx, but won't do the high quality mkv video. Apparently you can add some 3rd party software that will allow for it.

[RONDAL]

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my initial plans were to turn an old tower into a NAS, stock it full of drives and fans and run a linux based OS on it.

[longsock]

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my initial plans were to turn an old tower into a NAS, stock it full of drives and fans and run a linux based OS on it.

ubuntu

[Kordain]

Re: Computer hard drive recovery

I also grabbed one of those dLink DNS-323 nas setups with 2x2TB drives in it. Its a piece of sh*t for media streaming, but its good for straight data storage.

Why you say its a piece of ****? i have mine down in the basement and it works flawlessly to my Boxeebox and my mk1 xbox XMBC. Never has a single prob with it!!

[James]

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I live in an apartment bldg that has pretty heavy wireless traffic so i suppose it could be blamed on that, but I couldnt stream any decent file (mostly MKV 1080p rips) without having to rebuffer like 20+ times during the movie.

Now I relocated the nas to my media cabinet so I can hardwire it but data transfer speeds are pretty bad (7-8 mb on a 100mb, less than 20mb on a 1000)...I can stream anything, but expected better haha.

[darkmanCANADA]

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I have heard of guys breaking up the big MKV files into 1GB parts which may help your speed issue. Don't know if that may help.

[aliencurv]

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I have heard of guys breaking up the big MKV files into 1GB parts which may help your speed issue. Don't know if that may help.

that should not matter with SMB. You can read the RFC online on how SMB works. But file position seeking is included as a supported design function. I had done a lot of development on samba back in my linux contribution days in the mid 90's. My specific involvement was with IPFWADM (pre ipchains)

if the network is slow due to packet interference, try different channels. make sure you're connecting over N also. try a simple file copy of a large file and see what the speed is.. ~3MB/sec is okie dokie for N. Depends on the wireless fragmentation, the tcp mtu and frame traffic. Some home routers do interesting QOS things. So turning QOS off is a good start

Any storage unit (wifi or not) will/should be able to provide 3MB/sec, i hope!

The worst media player on your computer will be VLC though. Many people have a boner for it because it _used_ to be a great solution. It isn't a very well maintained project now that there are other solutions. The ultimate solution is to maintain the stock OS's media player (i.e. windows media player) by providing it access to a codec pack. The ONLY codec pack i will recommend is Shark 007 (which is the absolute best)

Anything native to your OS is going to perform more effecient than anything third party. I can tell you why. For example, there are many undocumented interop methods available that require signatured access in the windows OS. My time at Symantec and some of the work i later did at the NSA provided me with protected methods in Windows OS. That is how applications like firewalls and virus scanners are able to "intercept" various i/o and pipes. So trust native microsoft applications before using silly hacks like VLC

[popp]

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Dj is a geek

[aliencurv]

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Dj is a geek

just a tad

[BaggedGLI]

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Kind of off topic, but interesting nonetheless.

http://www.petapixel.com/2011/03/09/...28PetaPixel%29

[stefan]

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also off topic, but I got my dns-323 streaming mkv files with no issues today. I tried with 720p and 1080p quality files.