On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >> The Dlink DNS-323 looks exactly what you are asking of >>> >> >> What a procedure to hack that thing! >> >> The problem I see with going the all-in-one NAS route is that down the >>>> road, there's always some function you'd like to add - but you can't. >>>> You've hit the limitations of the box. >>>> >>> >> That's why I want to put straight Linux on it:) >> >> As fun as hacking that thing would be, I might just buy one of the tiny >> boards, but for the price if I brick the DNS-323 it would still be fun >> and I wouldn't really care! >> > > The most demanding operation you'd want such a server to do is probably > feeding video/media files to a DLNA client like an xbox360 or PS3 which > sometimes involves transcoding the content. You'd probably get the most > specific advice about device capabilities on the forums for those programs > (mediatomb, for example, which runs on a lot of the small network hard > drives). > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > http://www.readynas.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/readynas_specs.swf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080905/45842856/attachment-0004.html>