The “Break it Down” Blog

Infrant ReadyNAS Adds BitTorrent Support

Grant Gochnauer sent in news that Infrant is releasing a new Beta of their RAIDiator 4 firmware (really the OS the ReadyNAS systems run) that will be adding the precursor infrastructure for BitTorrent support. In the current build being able to set the download directory isn’t working, but will be fixed in the next beta [...]

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PS3 + Infrant ReadyNAS + Xvid Stream

It was reported shortly after the last PS3 Firmware 2.10 release that DivX support was added but Xvid support was only added when the media was played off the PS3’s hard drive. Well for you lucky Infrant ReadyNAS folks out there, it looks like the soon-to-be-released RAIDiator 4 relase of the OS for the ReadyNAS [...]

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Building a Network Attached Storage Device for (XBox 360) Media Streaming

So my current personal project is to build a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device. In the most vanilla sense, the purpose of a NAS is to be a little headless (no video card or monitor) network connected device that has a custom operating system on it usually and just holds a ton of hard drives [...]

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