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« on: December 04, 2008, 01:38:51 AM »
hi can anyone help on the subject of .......... i am looking for a external hard drive that has a torrent server so i dont have to connect my lap top ..........not being too clued up on the computer jargon i thought i might ask for help  Yawn
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« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2008, 07:13:24 AM »
This is a rough description as I understand it...

A NAS Server is like an external hard drive which may be configured RAID 5. Sometimes they may have internal applications such as a Gallery, Torrent client and HTML server inbuilt.

The main difference (as I understand it) between a NAS Server and a normal Server is that a NAS Server can only be accessed from a local network.

If I'm a little short on knowledge on this subject, please somebody elaborate. Wink (I still picked up 5 Mb for the post) lol
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« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2008, 10:16:33 AM »
NAS in this respect stands for Network-Attached Storage - a NAS box is basically one or more hard drives connected directly to a network interface, with a rudimentary operating system to allow the file access. 
Quite often nowadays the larger NAS boxes come with more than one physical disc and are configured in a RAID, so that if one disc dies the data is not lost.
Many NAS boxes come pre-installed with proprietary OSes, file systems and software, but I believe you should be able to install FreeNAS on any NAS box, and this includes BitTorrent (as well as FTP, iTunes and others) capability

edit:  on further reading re: FreeNAS, it seems it's actually for turning a normal PC into a NAS box, I don't think it'll run on a factory-built NAS box.

You may wanna try something like the QNAP TS-209 - the QNAP products feature BitTorrent support out the box and seem reasonably priced http://qnapstore.co.uk/index.php?act=viewCat&catId=85
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« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2008, 02:39:42 AM »
yeah thats exactly what i need thanks for your help  Smiley
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