My ReadyNAS Story . . .

pcourtney1 wrote:
thanks to your posts, I am embarking on a very similar path, I've just bought a new ReadyNAS Pro 2 ( the 5 year warranty swung it for me) and I inserted 2 x 3TB drives which will be configured with X-Raid2, I am going to place it out of the way, as I have Cat6 all over the house, so I don't have to worry about the fans.

Awesome! I'm glad I helped convince you. I'm less than two weeks in now, but so far the ReadyNas Pro is stellar. Looks like you had an old ReadyNAS so you're in the family well before I ever was :)

pcourtney1 wrote:
the first thing for me is getting Squeezebox up and running on the Pro, I have six Squeezebox Duets around the house

You know, I've been seeing Squeezebox pop up more and more lately and I haven't looked into what it is at all, I may have to do some research.

pcourtney1 wrote:
It would be nice to eventually upgrade all the TV's in the house to Samsung, so I can move from room to room and still watch the video without too much interruption.

Only 1 of my 3 Samsung TVs support DLNA but it seems to work pretty well. I upgraded to a Wireless-N router at the same time but I'm not sure if that helps at all or not or if my old G would have been fine.

pcourtney1 wrote:
I'm going to try the Acronis 10 ( 90 day trial ) and see how that goes before I make my mind up on that one

Post back and let us know how Acronis goes - I backup my stuff elsewhere, too, but I like having it on S3 so that it's slightly more professionally managed and I don't have to worry as much about a disaster during those times when all of my data is in one place.