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The Tritton is WAY too slowfor video, works for pictures and audio
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> From: "Age ii account" <[email protected]>
> Date: 2004/05/18 Tue PM 05:16:20 EDT
> To: "Roku Tech Mail List and Discussion Group" <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: [Roku-tech] NAS Storage solutions
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> I've actually used the Tritton Technologies ASAP 1120 NAS, router, switch,
> DHCP server (another everything but the kitchen sink device) with success
> with the Roku. Since it has a default GUEST share if worked the first time
> like a charm. www.trittonsales.com
>
> Adrian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Sujal Patel
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 11:57 AM
> To: Roku Tech Mail List and Discussion Group
> Subject: Re: [Roku-tech] NAS Storage solutions
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> I think the Ximeta's Netdisk idea pretty much sucks. It is nice for
> consumers because there is zero configuration with their 'raw' protocol,
> but they make their traffic unroutable (and who would buy that thing and
> not have a DHCP server somewhere in their house today?). Looks like they
> woke up one day and decided that all of the work that went into iSCSI
> wasn't good enough and they needed to invent something new!
>
> USR recently introduced a NAS product called the USR8200. It's actually a
> firewall, router, NAS, and kitchen sink all in one box. The NAS part
> let's you hook up any external disk via USB/FW. I haven't tested this
> thing or seen any performance numbers, but since it's just a Intel IXP422
> w/ Linux, it should be plenty fast enough for the HD1000.
>
> Anyone near a fry's and wanna try one of these out?
>
>
> Sujal
>
> On Tue, 18 May 2004, Jay A. Kreibich wrote:
>
> > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 12:16:19PM -0400, Leslie scratched on the wall:
> > > When I asked them (ximeta) why they did use ip address so they could be
> > > address directly, they replied. "The NetDisk does not use IP addresses
> > > primarily for two reasons. One being speed. The NetDisk is able to have
> > > much higher transfers and access speeds through our proprietary protocol
> > > rather than IP.
> >
> > I really really really doubt that. Faster than TCP/IP, no doubt, but
> > not raw IP (or, for that matter, their own protocol over UDP/IP).
> > Network protocols are exceptionally difficult to get right-- kind of
> > like encryption algorithms-- and I always question someone that
> > claims they can do much better.
> >
> > > Second is Security."
> >
> > Security through obscurity isn't.
> >
> > -j
> >
> > --
> > Jay A. Kreibich | Integration & Software Eng.
> > [email protected] | Campus IT & Edu. Svcs.
> > <http://www.uiuc.edu/~jak> | University of Illinois at U/C
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