So the vacation is finally over. Two weeks of pretty much doing nothing. We had some fun though, we got a new digital videocamera, so we were able to record Michael when we went to the zoo. All in all, I’ve never relaxed so much before, ever. But boy did I notice how tough it was to get up at my regular 5.30am in the morning, sheesh. I’ll get used to it, but it’ll take me a while.
Now on to some other things. I’ve probably mentioned before that I was using FreeNAS along with a server that I inherited from my sister-in-law and her husband. Things were going fine, and FreeNAS was working like a dream. Until the machine died. Again. I had enough, and decided to never touch the machine again. Didn’t matter how much I had to suck up to Marte, I was buying a new NAS-machine. And I did.
I proudly present the Synology DS209j.
It has been working like a charm. I’ve tried both NFS, CIFS and UPnP so far (streaming to the Xbox 360 works GREAT!). The only thing is that the re-indexing takes AGES. When you add some new content to the systemfolders (Video, Music, Photo), the new media has to be re-indexed so that the latest addition is in the database. Thus you have a Re-index button. But the button Re-indexes EVERYTHING , so if you have say 80GB worth of data, it might quickly take 15-20-30 minutes to add everything to the database. Why they just don’t add a “Add latest additions to the database”-button is beyond me. I sent in a support-request for it though, so now to see if they’ll include it sometime in the future. No wonder that it takes a while either, the NAS-machine has 64MB memory integrated into the motherboard, and no option to add some more either. With the DS209+ though you can actually add some more memory, but then you’d void the warranty, and you’d have to pay a bit more for the box itself. I paid about 190€ for the DS209j, including shipment, while the DS209+ costs a bit more at around 240€ or so. Everything is set up in a RAID1 array with two 1TB disks in it.
Also, I’ve been kind of hooked on Anime of late. I’ve been watching Avatar – The Last Airbender, Afro Samurai (series and movie), Elfen Lied, and recently gotten hold of Cowboy Bebop and Death Note, which I’ve heard good things about. I am loving them.
Does anyone out there have any more anime to recommend? I eagerly await your answer. :)
