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I've got a NetGear ReadyNas Pro with 6 drive bays each containing a 2Tb seagate low power drive for 12Tb of usable space. It allows me to rip dvds in pretty muc

by SEJeff 14y ago

I've got a NetGear ReadyNas Pro with 6 drive bays each containing a 2Tb seagate low power drive for 12Tb of usable space. It allows me to rip dvds in pretty much raw form to the nas and then transcode them (using http://handbrake.fr http://handbrake.fr) to whatever format I want. My wife wants to watch some RomCom on her phone/android tablet during a long plane ride? No problem! Get it at RedBox for $1.20, rip it, and transcode it to the proper size and format. The resulting file is only 300-450Mb, so her phone and tablet can hold gobs of them. Also, netgear has some pretty decent forums. As a Linux guy, massive bonus points that the ReadyNas boxes are just modified Debian and they will let you get root on them. http://www.readynas.com/forum http://www.readynas.com/forum I'm a HUGE fan. You can get a diskless 6 drive bay one for: http://www.amazon.com/Readynas-Pro-6-Unified-Nas/dp/B004S9JX52 http://www.amazon.com/Readynas-Pro-6-Unified-Nas/dp/B004S9JX... It is also a great time machine backup for my wife's crackbook pro lappy.

niels_olson 14y ago
I didn't know the NetGear was that hackable. Cool. Have you ever had to do a network install of, say, OS X? Yardie reports he was able to do that with Synology (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4340947 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4340947) Also, any experience with AeroFS?
- SEJeff 14y ago
  A network install is just a PXE for any operating system. It would be pretty trivial to setup tftp on the readynas. If it isn't builtin already, Id be surprised if there wasn't a community extension to do it on the forums already.
gradschool 14y ago
This looks really good, but two things would be helpful to know before splashing out. Can any amount of hacking get it to do full disk encryption (without losing redundancy), and is it sufficiently fool proof for my non-tech-savvy 80-year-old parents who use only windows?

by SEJeff 14y ago

niels_olson 14y ago

I didn't know the NetGear was that hackable. Cool. Have you ever had to do a network install of, say, OS X? Yardie reports he was able to do that with Synology (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4340947 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4340947) Also, any experience with AeroFS?

SEJeff 14y ago
A network install is just a PXE for any operating system. It would be pretty trivial to setup tftp on the readynas. If it isn't builtin already, Id be surprised if there wasn't a community extension to do it on the forums already.

gradschool 14y ago

This looks really good, but two things would be helpful to know before splashing out. Can any amount of hacking get it to do full disk encryption (without losing redundancy), and is it sufficiently fool proof for my non-tech-savvy 80-year-old parents who use only windows?