I just got the above network drive and to my dismay cannot put any audio or video clips on it. I was wondering if anyone knows of anyway to get the drive to start liking these files or have I just got myself a really expensive paperweight!
What do you mean you can't put any audio or video clips on the drive? How are you trying to put them there?
There is an audio/video file limitation for Mybooks I believe, you're best off returning it and making your own external drive using a PC internal drive and an enclosure.
OK thanks I'm gutted as was hoping to use it to store and access stuff for my ps3 and xbox 360. Maybe someone will figure out a way around it. I think it uses a linux based program. Might keep hold of it a couple more weeks and see what occurs.
You could always rip out the drive in it and put it in your own box to not have to deal with the software...
That would kind of defeat the object of having a wireless network drive though. I only have a laptop. I really wanted it to keep next to the router and stream music and video files to my xbox or ps3.
Hi the drive does not support a lot of file formats unfortunately you don't find that out until you've installed the software and checked their website
indeed; though using the hard drive (or any hard drive) in a standard ie self built enclosure (i personally prefer USB2.0) attached to the laptop means they are easily shared for the xbox to access (i assume you mean an old xbox as i don't have an xbox 360 - so don't know how 360's work with streamed files, i use XBMC on a few old xboxes and they work incredibly well); i don't own a PS3 either so don't know how they work with streamed files either. I always wanted a NAS type device that would sit on the network standalone to stream files from, but they all seem to have substandard software, so i found the best way was to buy standard enclosures and put hard disk of choice in them, then use standard Windows sharing so anything on various pc's on the network is shared, and my xboxes can also effortlessly access music and video files. The only downside is that at least one pc has to be on for the streaming to work but it sure beats dealing/fighting with NAS boxes with crap/inadequate software
Indeed, it's what I did up to a point, and then thought sod it, went the whole hog and built another PC using Linux as a fileserver - that way I get four or more hard disks, proper gigabit LAN, and should I want to I can stick an XP hard disk in there and use it as a normal PC. Wasn't really that expensive to pull off. The reason why I went with Linux over windows is that each individual file seems to have a short delay with windows, fine for streaming videos, MP3s or whatever, but if you ever decided to install something to it, loading that application would take many many minutes, if not hours...
Oh i see, you used Linux for the file server, nice. I have to admit to using Windows far too much /hangs head in shame..
Well likewise, I'm still more a puppet controller though, I only know a few basic commands and probably couldn't reinstall the OS into its current state from scratch. Still, always time to learn...
Aye. I love linux/Unix and everything but too much of it is like bringing my work home But XBMC just works, no messing, my preferred way of playing music & watching movies. I could have a mahoosive hard drive in one xbox and have that as a sort of file server but XBMC corrupted on me twice so now everything important lives on USB2.0 hard drives (with a 2nd hard drive as a backup for music files) attached to my Quad Core machine, plus on CD/DVD as an extra backup of some real old stuff. Plus of course all that stuff is accessible on any of my Linux machines too. Maybe i'll setup a Linux server one day (i have a brand new Core 2 Duo sat doing nothing in fact) and keep the Quad machine just for a movie encoding machine, as it was originally intended to be...
Indeed, it's a little bit like being in a Computer science class! I couldn't help but notice you used "just works" and "corrupted on me twice" about the same product...
Indeed; i still swear by XBMC though, i just don't keep much data on the actual xbox hard drive (well other than 100's of games), so if it does break again (it's not too uncommon for that to happen to anyone) i would just quickly rebuild and lose no data; i have another couple xboxes on the network anyway, for the kids to play games on and play music/films on - agin those machines just acess the USB2.0 drives on the Quad. In fact i have a USB2.0 500GB hard drive on the network that contains most of my xbox games so if XBMC ever corrupts the main xbox again (that has a 250GB drive), i can just ftp most of the stuff back over
So you think it's the Xbox hard disk at fault? I'm curious, because although I don't use XBMC, I do own a 360.
No, it's only happened to me each time i try to put too much data on the drive, i think it's the program (DVD2Xbox) that loses track of how much free space is left; the MB/GB counter goes to zero then stops displaying the amount of space left but lets you keep installing games. But i suppose other people out there have suffered corruption for other reasons (i know Jan has said she's been hit by corruption too, but don't know why). But i love the way that XBMC is just so well built, so easily accessible/usable, far better than anything i've ever used before; now if they ever developed something similar for the 360 (and i could be sure of a 360 never going south on me ie RROD problems etc) then i'd consider adding a 360 to my collection, but for now it's USB enclosures all the way (plus 5 internal SATA drives), then when 1TB drives are cheap enough i'll bulk buy a few of those
Indeed, so far so good with ours - I managed a RROD on it once but it turned out that was because the video cable to the TV came loose... :S If I wasn't so worried about funds I'd have an xbox modified so it's actually cooled properly - the heatsinks look bad from the photos, look at them in real life and they seem even worse. My Chipset's got something better than that, let alone my CPU.
