[mythtv-users] Extremely Good Deal on 2.5" drive

[Brian Wood]

On Jun 13, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Mudit Wahal wrote:

> Kurobox, which can hold an IDE HD, is another alternative, though
> double the price. Linksys NSLU2 running slug can be used as ext. NAS.
> Both of these run linux, comes with source code etc etc. Kuro is quite
> poweful, has its own community.
>
> link for kuro http://kurobox.com/
> link for nslu2 http://www.nslu2-linux.org/

Do you have any experience with the Kurobox? That 128MB of RAM looks  
enticing, the 32MB in the slug is pretty limiting. Price tag is high  
though. Any limitations on drive size ?

I see that, like everything else I've seen, it will not run NFS out  
of the box, but I guess these things are all being sold with Windows  
in mind so Samba is the standard, it's just so inefficient.

I'm pretty familiar with the slug (I have four of them) and they are  
a good solution for a lot of things. I have one running as a mail  
server, another as an NFS server providing storage for my Myth system.

Software exists to use the slug with a Hauppauge USB capture device,  
not enough horsepower to run a Myth backend,  but  it might be  
integrated into a distributed Myth system somehow, capturing  
dedicated feeds and feeding them into the system.