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Caustic said:
I haven't tried but I very much doubt these would be fast enough for any sort of video transcoding.
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That's what I wondered...

How about any way to getting it to reencode and save a second copy of downloads into a separate area that my Xbox would be pointed at???

Hmmm, will have to have a think
 
Caustic said:
I know people have done that for that exact reason, but not sure on W8. Should be possible I guess.
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From what I have seen, you can't run windows of any flavour off of a USB stick, but you can install it from one.

If you wanted to run off of USB I would think Linux.

My plan is to use the 250gb for the os (WHS) in one of the four bays, then when I need to reclaim the last bay for storage, move the os disc up top and use a drive doubler in the ODD bay.

Steve
 
steeve42 said:
From what I have seen, you can't run windows of any flavour off of a USB stick, but you can install it from one.

If you wanted to run off of USB I would think Linux.

Steve
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You sure? I know a few people who have installed some flavour of Linux onto an USB stick but I have never tried windows. I would have thought Windows 8 could do tho'. I mean, it runs on devices like tablets etc. A quick google search showed a few people claiming to have done it. No idea how much of a hack it was tho'.
 
Windows 8 does it properly and previous incarnations can do it with a bit of fiddling. Just worried about write cycles on flash memory really, gonna keep an eye out for a cheap SSD instead.
 
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Tinders said:
How bout if you upgraded the gpu to a passive radeon 6450 or 5450?
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Interesting idea. The last time I tried video transcoding, it was a nightmare but since that was a year or two ago, things might be a lot better. My solution was simply, don't spend money on downgrading the video, spend it on playing the original file. In short. XBMC.

CD
 
Caustic said:
You sure? I know a few people who have installed some flavour of Linux onto an USB stick but I have never tried windows. I would have thought Windows 8 could do tho'. I mean, it runs on devices like tablets etc. A quick google search showed a few people claiming to have done it. No idea how much of a hack it was tho'.
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Not sure, but just from what I had seen before, although that was before Win8 was mainstream.

If you can get it to run off a USB, post back here, I would find that useful for my future expansion, as it would give me another drive for storage instead of the OS, Windows only in that case.

Steve
 
I'll ignore the USB for now, I doubt I'll need anymore than 4 HDDs in the next year anyway. Another question then!
Can I email the cashback form instead of snail mail? I'm not sure I can even remember how to send a letter!

Who to? And what do I do about the signature field.......
 
Caustic said:
Interesting idea. The last time I tried video transcoding, it was a nightmare but since that was a year or two ago, things might be a lot better. My solution was simply, don't spend money on downgrading the video, spend it on playing the original file. In short. XBMC.

CD
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Good point, though it would be a shame to retire my lovely old xbox as it works beautifully it just can't cope with newer formats etc.

I do have a raspberry pi running openelec which seems to work nicely which I intend to use. I also have a WDTV Live which is annoying me as it sees my serviio server fine, and can browse through folders etc no problems at all and starts playing anything and everything perfectly...but after a few minutes it loses connection with the server and then refuses to see it until I do a full power cycle...

If I could just get that working maybe I wouldn't need the xbox for a while...
 
The speed on this thing is painful for clearing hard drives!

2TB WD Red, Unraid wants to clear so I set it off, 6% over 12 hours. Kill me now.
 
valve90210 said:
Good point, though it would be a shame to retire my lovely old xbox as it works beautifully it just can't cope with newer formats etc.

I do have a raspberry pi running openelec which seems to work nicely which I intend to use. I also have a WDTV Live which is annoying me as it sees my serviio server fine, and can browse through folders etc no problems at all and starts playing anything and everything perfectly...but after a few minutes it loses connection with the server and then refuses to see it until I do a full power cycle...

If I could just get that working maybe I wouldn't need the xbox for a while...
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The Pi makes for a surprisingly good XBMC player. Can't manage some uber high bit rate stuff but otherwise plays videos really well.
 
RE: my post on the other page, anyone selling this for less that £195~ seems to be shipping from outside the UK meaning they're not eligible for the cash back.

Probably been discussed a hundred times in the 180 odd previous pages, but thought I'd stick it here in case anyone comes wondering in after seeing the cash back offer is on.
 
I'm not sure what im doing wrong but hopefully someone can help.

I have an N40L running Nas4Free with a 6TB ZFS pool. Ive created SMB and NFS shares on these and am now trying to copy files from my PC (via SMB) to the N40. Ive mapped the share and can connect all fine. When copying, smallish files copy fine but with large BR rips say 40Gb, the copy halts at various points saying connection lost with server. I'm unable to resume it so it fails. The connection is all GB via a HP GB switch.

What am i doing wrong here?

Thanks
 
Whilst you're copying, leave a constant ping from the source to destination running. I reckon the constant stream of data is causing the link to drop for some reason.

Are all machines wired in, or are there any wireless devices involved in the copy process?
 
randal24 said:
Whilst you're copying, leave a constant ping from the source to destination running. I reckon the constant stream of data is causing the link to drop for some reason.

Are all machines wired in, or are there any wireless devices involved in the copy process?
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its weird, one 35Gb file copied fine with no ping loss or latency yet another 42Gb one fails. When that happens the pings remain but ar a few ms slower.
 
Caustic said:
The Pi makes for a surprisingly good XBMC player. Can't manage some uber high bit rate stuff but otherwise plays videos really well.
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From my initial testing it does indeed seem to be a decent player, the thing is I need one for the kitchen and one for the bedroom. I've been using the xbox in the bedroom but it can't play more recent mp4s etc without transcoding to mpeg or similar...hence my transcoding question.

Annoyingly my WDTV Live should be able to play anything, and indeed can see the serviio server but loses connection after a couple of minutes and I've no idea why and have not been able to get to te bottom of it depsite lots of research and asking questions all over the place....
 
Ash2097 said:
Is that £169.99 then £100 off?

Sorry just seen your post about the over seas, cheapest I can see is £205 then £100 off.
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Yeah that's pretty much the place I've seen listed on HUKD too, think I'll go for that. Will probably order Monday and stick my media PC/Time Capsule up for sale to finance a Microserver NAS/HTPC build. :)

pdw8 said:
its weird, one 35Gb file copied fine with no ping loss or latency yet another 42Gb one fails. When that happens the pings remain but ar a few ms slower.
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That is odd, I would have expected the drop to be a fairly harsh one and not just a file copy failure. It sounds like a buffer or something is filling up then failing in the copy then.
 
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