Re: Argosy HD-363N

I am running the AT and Xbox XBMC with a server computer with WinXP and 8
external USB2 hard drives for a total of around 2TB of movies, photos, and
music. At times I have ran 2 Xboxes with both streaming video and the AT
streaming music all at the same time with nary a hiccup. The USB2 has no
problems keeping up.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Rebholz" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Argosy HD-363N


Well, MS is a big place, and I'm not up on most of it.

I'm sure you could get remote access to a windows box via any number of
third party packages. Thing is, if it's cheap you're after every $30-$40
you add makes it less and less attractive. A server set up would work
just fine, but unless you have an old NT CD lying around the software is
just too expensive. While it's getting ugly and time consuming, you
could always run a linux samba server, share out the drive, and have at
it. Better be into it though because I've done that (not with the AT in
mind) and if you're not linux savvy it's a time consuming affair -- I'd
rather be shooting pool and listening to my music.

The old laptop solution sounds good. I'm surprised there's not a problem
with throughput using USB. I went to 1394 attached drives, but then I
have everything in WAV format. I've been hoping that AT would someday
support WMA lossless, but that's looking pretty remote now.

Bob Rebholz
Microsoft Corp.

(425) 706-7097



-----Original Message-----
From: Turtle Beach Audiotron User Forum
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Wagner
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 2:33 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AT] Argosy HD-363N

How hard is it to run a windows box headless?

To tell the truth, I've never tried, but with something like VCN it
shouldn't be all that hard.

Of course, with your .sig, you probably know the answer ... :-)

Michael
At 2/4/05 03:26 PM, 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

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