Re: Argosy HD-363N

Patrick St-Amant <[email protected]> Fri, 4 Feb 2005 17:00:24 -0500
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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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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