Re: Argosy HD-363N

Yup.  that's why the best solution in my mind is an old laptop.  I'm
currently running a half way decent PIII laptop with a 4 port USB2.0
PCMCIA card and the thruput is great...  I use VNC to manage it, but if
I have an issue, I've got the built-in monitor, keyboard, etc...  A
quick look on Ebay shows PII laptops going for around $200 - or about
$120 more than a NAS device.

Kyle

Robert Rebholz wrote:

>"Before it died, I was running WinXP on a PII, 233 - how much
>would one of those cost on eBay?"
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>It would cost you more to ship it...
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>The only issue is headless administration -- unless you have the space,
>the patience, or the KVM switch and cables (almost as much as the
>drive), to deal with it.
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>Bob Rebholz
>Microsoft Corp.
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>(425) 706-7097
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Turtle Beach Audiotron User Forum
>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kyle B. Hollasch
>Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 12:17 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [AT] Argosy HD-363N
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>After reading all this, and considering the general drawbacks of low-end
>NAS devices such as:
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>- not being able to load server software (easily) if you need it
>- incomaptible file formats (as used by the NSLU2) or lousy ones like
>FAT32 used by the Argosy
>- poor I/O performance
>- general bugginess
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>Is there any reason besides power consumption and space that an old PC
>wouldn't be better?  Infinitely more flexible, more expandable (via IDE
>or USB drives), faster thruput, NTFS file system, and if you want, low
>cost.  Before it died, I was running WinXP on a PII, 233 - how much
>would one of those cost on eBay?
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>Kyle
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>john wrote:
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>>Hmmm, it may not be a red-herring after all...
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>>Check this out:  http://support.microsoft.com/?id=326549
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>>"...The Read-only and System attributes is only used by Windows
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>Explorer to determine whether the folder is a special folder, such as a
>system folder that has its view customized by Windows (for example, My
>Documents, Favorites, Fonts, Downloaded Program Files), or a folder that
>you customized by using the Customize tab of the folder's Properties
>dialog box. As a result, Windows Explorer does not allow you to view or
>change the Read-only or System attributes of folders..."
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>>From: Turtle Beach Audiotron User Forum on behalf of Robin Mitchell
>>Sent: Fri 2/4/2005 1:37 AM
>>To: [email protected]
>>Subject: Re: [AT] Argosy HD-363N
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>>On Thursday, February 3, 2005, 10:21:24 PM, Tim Hill wrote:
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>>>Does the Read-only attribute correspond to the folders you cannot see
>>>withTOCMaker?
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>>I'm sorry, I didn't describe that very clearly.  None of the folders
>>are actually read-only; they just have an odd attribute display in
>>WinXP Windows Explorer.  Pretty much whenever I right-click on a
>>folder and select "Properties" from the menu, the dialog box that
>>comes up has a funny green square in the "Read only" attribute
>>checkbox.  It's not the checkmark that would be there if the folder
>>really were read-only, nor the empty box that would be there if it
>>weren't.  And I see that even if there are no read-only files in the
>>folder, so it isn't that either.
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>>Anyway, whatever it is, it's almost certainly a red herring here and I
>>probably shouldn't have mentioned it.  When I do a "DIR \\NAS\AT /A:R"
>>to list all of the read-only folders, none show up, so I don't think
>>that's causing the problem.
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>>Sorry about the confusion...
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>>  -- Robin
>>folders, none show up, so I don't think
>>that's causing the problem.
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>>Sorry about the confusion...
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>>  -- Robin
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