Re: Argosy HD-363N
Patrick St-Amant <[email protected]> Fri, 4 Feb 2005 17:00:24 -0500
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Please remove me from you mailing list! Thank you Kyle B. Hollasch wrote: > 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?" >> >> It would cost you more to ship it... >> >> 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. >> >> Bob Rebholz >> Microsoft Corp. >> >> (425) 706-7097 >> >> >> >> -----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 >> >> After reading all this, and considering the general drawbacks of low-end >> NAS devices such as: >> >> - 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 >> >> 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? >> >> Kyle >> >> >> >> john wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hmmm, it may not be a red-herring after all... >>> >>> Check this out: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=326549 >>> >>> "...The Read-only and System attributes is only used by Windows >>> >>> >> 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..." >> >> >>> ________________________________ >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, February 3, 2005, 10:21:24 PM, Tim Hill wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> Does the Read-only attribute correspond to the folders you cannot see >>>> withTOCMaker? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> 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. >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> Sorry about the confusion... >>> >>> -- Robin >>> folders, none show up, so I don't think >>> that's causing the problem. >>> >>> Sorry about the confusion... >>> >>> -- Robin >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > -- Patrick St-Amant Conseiller, Programmeur/Analyste Succursale Québec 2875 Boul. Laurier, Bureau 1250 Québec, (Québec) G1V 2M2 www.cia.ca <http://www.cia.ca/> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Tél. : (418) 838-7800 poste 4420