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Media Drive Enclosures - playing vids from ext hard drive to your tv!

  • 05-05-2007 11:44am
    #1
    branners69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,704 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    I was wondering if anyone has any experience with media enclosures, am thinking about getting this and putting a 500gb hard drive into it!

    Any advice or opinions?

    Cheers

    Branners


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  • #2
    FastFullBack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,457 ✭✭✭FastFullBack


    branners69 wrote:
    Hi,

    I was wondering if anyone has any experience with media enclosures, am thinking about getting this and putting a 500gb hard drive into it!

    Any advice or opinions?

    Cheers

    Branners

    Does look pretty good. And a nice price too. I paid £85.99 + delivery for this one:

    http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=585

    Read alot of great reviews about it on avforums.com ( http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=304639 ) before I bought it.

    Got it setup and going last night and it's the bomb. At the moment it just streaming from my laptop but I've order a 500GB HD from komplett.

    I'd defo buy one with the LAN cababilities. Brilliant to be able to play stuff direct from laptop.


    EDIT: Saw your other post regarding price. Reckon I'll be putting the whole thing together for about €290. €150 Media Enclosure. €140 500GB IDE Seagate Baracuada HD


  • #3
    BlackWizard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,282 ✭✭✭BlackWizard


    I bought a cheap one. Problem I have with it is that it's slow to browse through all of the videos. Not only slow, but because of the bad resolution of my TV, I can only see a few movie thumbnails at a time. It also does not all me to make movie directorys such as Anime, TV Shows, Lost etc. Instead it searches the entire harddrive for known extensions and then lists them with a thumnail preview of the first second.

    I'd prefere an explorer type navigation. :(


  • #4
    thecheese
    Registered Users Posts: 175 ✭✭thecheese


    i spotted an IQON 250gb media hard drive for 180€ in peats today, casing looked pretty similar to the one in the link on ebay. i dont know about lan inputs though..


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