Hard driveless Pc's

[fingz999]

Anyone else running anything simular to this? seams a good idea to use a nas box like the nice icy box one bellow so all the pcs have access to the same media without having to rip it to all the pcs.

link to ic box nas

http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_3876.html

link to the hard driveless pc artical

http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/Article_CFMCE.html

 

[nathan]

Anyone else running anything simular to this? seams a good idea to use a nas box like the nice icy box one bellow so all the pcs have access to the same media without having to rip it to all the pcs.

link to ic box nas

http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_3876.html

link to the hard driveless pc artical

http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/Article_CFMCE.html

i do something similar, i only have a small quite 20gb hard drive and record/play all media to my server. works well.

 

[nunzio]

I do this.. but my "icy box" is a linux file server/torrent server.

Only other machine in the house that has more than 40gb is the gaming monster and laptop.

 

[Nagaru]

Seems like a cool idea but I think people need to remember that flash has a finite life and although the cards are dirt cheap you might not consider your data that disposable. It used to be that if you were going to do this you would make sure there were not files that would be repeatedly rewritten, such as log files, swap files, and the NTFS journal.

 

[nathan]

wonder if it would be possible (or even worth while) to try and boot an os from a network share. Wonder what the speed would be like on say a GBit network.

 

[Nagaru]

It is possible and not all that uncommon in the IT world. The standard dhcp server on most Linux distros has the ability to do it.

 

[nathan]

It is possible and not all that uncommon in the IT world. The standard dhcp server on most Linux distros has the ability to do it.

you talking about tftp?

 

[Nagaru]

This is what I am talking about. I guess it uses tftp.

 

[nathan]

This is what I am talking about. I guess it uses tftp.

Trivial File Transfer Protocol would mean tftp, so you guess right!