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Network Hard drives

My laptop memory is getting a bit full so I'm thinking of getting a network hard drive that I can save all my music, videos and pictures on.

Are all the basic ones able to stream music/video through the network ok? And I need to stream everything to the xbox too. Do the hard drives appear as a virtual computer on the network?

And does anyone have any recommendations on what one to get? I'm using about 60GB at the moment

Cheers!! :p

Re: Network Hard drives

nas drives rock. you also get media drives.

if i were you daz, (and i'm not) i would get a media drive.

take your pick m8 there are hundreds and hundreds out there.

Re: Network Hard drives

What does a media drive do that a hard drive doesn't?

Re: Network Hard drives

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Originally Posted by DarrenSV650S (Post 2137613)

Advisable to have everything backed up to a seperate hard drive, just in case your lasptop goes bang.

They are so cheap, that I'd go for the biggest capacity I could afford.

1Tb model at Maplins £69.99. Think it's networkable as its got a port.

Re: Network Hard drives

has a built in media player so you can view pictures and video on yer telly.

Re: Network Hard drives

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Originally Posted by DarrenSV650S (Post 2137623)

What does a media drive do that a hard drive doesn't?

My media player is connectable to my Tv or audio system and it has its own remote control, so I can rip movies to it in DVIX or MPEG4, then I can play them from the Hard drive. Saves carrying round a load of DVD's for a start :p

Re: Network Hard drives

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Originally Posted by maviczap (Post 2137627)

Yeh I've got everything backed up on a portable 150GB drive. Learnt that the hard way years ago and lost a load of photo's

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Originally Posted by Bibio (Post 2137628)

has a built in media player so you can view pictures and video on yer telly.

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Originally Posted by maviczap (Post 2137635)

Ahh. I've been using the xbox to do that but it's not the best having to use the controller. It would be handy to have a remote.
Would I be able to get the audio from the laptop to go through the media centre then out my dvd speakers? Or is that asking too much :p

Re: Network Hard drives

you would just copy it to the media drive. but i think some drives have a 'pass threw' feature.

Re: Network Hard drives

i just bought an iomega one 124 quid at pc world it is serving 5 pcs in our house along with the tv (dlna) and the xbox 360 so yes they do work (took a bit of fiddling and upgraded software and firmware until all was ok.

but its worth it for freeing up all the other machines of the music and pictures , thereby saving 4 or 5 hard disk upgrades :smt080

Re: Network Hard drives

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Originally Posted by amarko5 (Post 2137766)

Is that the 1TB one? I had a look on their site but there's bugger all information for the products