Comments on: Infrant Home NAS

By: storing movies on hard drive

storing movies on hard drive — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:21:32 +0000

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By: Rob Quarters

Rob Quarters — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:30:33 +0000

The Drobo has improved its performance a good deal from what I have read lately on their community. THey have a new firmware revision available in the hacker section. But I can’t speak to their network performance through DroboShare, I haven’t seen any performance numbers published. Where did you get the 1/2 - 1/3 figures? Could you publish a link? I know their USB numbers were better than Infrant’s network performance, but I don’t have info on DroboShare.

If anybody has seen published performance numbers for DroboShare, please link or share with us please.

By: Actionj_99

Actionj_99 — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:31:45 +0000

The DROBO is nice, but the transfer performance is 1/2 to 1/3 the speed of the ReadyNAS on a Gigabit Network.

By: Rob Quarters

Rob Quarters — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:09:47 +0000

Now that the Data Robotics folks have introduced a NAS front end for the Drobo, it is very competitive with the ReadyNAS and the price is fairly equivalent. With the additional functionality of the Drobo, it’s clearly a winner product.

By: IndianPad

IndianPad — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:53:05 +0000

Infrant Home NAS…

Infrant Home NAS posted at IndianPad.com…

By: mpg

mpg — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:02:34 +0000

Bazzer,

The Thecus N2100 is a nice product, but it only support RAID-1 for redundancy. RAID-5 is more efficient choice. If you’re adventurous, you can build yourself a Home NAS with RAID-5 and UPnP support. Openfiler (https://www.openfiler.com/) supports UPnP. I think FreeNAS (http://www.freenas.org/) have UPnP in its feature scope.

By: Bazzer

Bazzer — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 01:56:18 +0000

My UPnP AV setup is a Thecus N2100 bought from myBoomBox in the UK (Thecus N2100 YES Box Music Server NAS, which has the Mediabolic UPnP AV server built-in and am streaming audio to a couple of Pinnacle (previously Roku) M1001’s - one connected to the hifi in the living room and one in the kitchen. It’s works a treat!

I’ve seen the QNAP TS-101 and TS-201 boxes too, which have the TwonkyMedia UPnP AV server built-in, and they seem like very well made bits of kit…