Western Digital Nerfs Service To Please Hollywood, Fails To Please Anyone
Western Digital's unhelpfully-named Terabyte brick, My Book World Edition, has had its internet-accessible drive space - one of the device's former claims to fame - restricted in what types of files it can share. Notably, sharing has been disabled for avi, divx, mp3, mpeg and other file types, which leaves the folks at BoingBoing wondering:
Just wondering -- who needs a 1 Terabyte network-connected hard drive that is prohibited from serving most media files? Perhaps somebody with 220 million pages of .txt files they need to share?
I heard that, baby. Not that I was looking for a DIY alternative to Slingbox or anything, but guess whose unhelpfully-named Terabyte brick HDD I won't be buying this year? At least Maxtor doesn't hook me with the lie of anywhere-accessible content. And - My Book charges a subscription fee - that they don't tell you about - to use the now-useless online service. That's shady, right there...
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tiny dancer
Posted to In the News, On Your Desk on 6 December 2007
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I'm using a Buffalo Terastation, hacked to run MT-DAAPD for iTunes library sharing.
I haven't been able to find a client for their pcast media server so I can stream the rest of my media on it from my other computers. I'm stuck having to mount it as a SMB share to play the media files.