Kitz wants......
Nearly a month ago, I saw one of these on e-buyer.. and ever since... the geeky bit of me has wanted this new *toy*.
http://www.buffalotech.com/products/product-detail.php?productid=72&categoryid=16atm.. I have a fairly powerful machine thats switched on 24/7 using leccy, acting basically as a web/ftp/file server.
This machine has a couple of drives attached to it, one of which is basically my backup drive... and tbh I didnt really like the idea, that both drives were on the same machine, until I got around to putting it on fixed media (once in a blue moon).
A couple of months back the idea was I was gonna build a "proper server" using an old p3, and parts etc were priced up to equip this.
However, since Ive seen this.. the more I want... ok.. so I may be able to do things a lil bit cheaper (but not much), and this seems to meet my needs, now that theres only me and *the brat*.
Most of the time I use the lappy and the PC is only really switched on so that I can continually work from and access files that are stored on the main PC.
It would also be pretty good to have a central storage for music thats shared by me and my daughter.
- File Server, with groups/user access.
- FTP Server,
- Print Server, (means daughter can share printer)
- Media Server,
- Backup - to spare drive on main machine.
I think the only thing I'd loose would be the webserver, but thats only a *play thing*, and I woudnt/could dream of hosting kitz.co.uk on there as it would kill my adsl connection.
Sooooooo... every day I keep looking at this... waiting for pay day... and drooling...
and chris is probably sick of me talking about it. :/