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Linksys 500GB Media Hub Home Entertainment Storage

Linksys 500GB Media Hub Home Entertainment Storage for $159.99 + shipping

Young man, what have I told you about leaving your media all over the house?

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wow only 1.8 inches huh? I gotta have one.

The site says the original price is 250 dollars so you are saving 225... I am not so sure about that but still I want a tiny 40gb hard drive

meghiddo
a year ago

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Please pass over what @meghiddo is smoking...

salsashark42
a year ago

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@meghiddo: If the original price is $250 and Woot is selling it for $159.99 how are you saving $225? To be saving $225 Woot would need to be selling this for $25. Nice math!

kracker04
a year ago

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@kracker04: He commented in the wrong forum; his comments should have been in the Toshiba forum.

sbogden
a year ago

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Woot, I get it already. No matter how many times I check the "dont show me this again," I still get the "hey you must not know what the F you're doing here" panel. Seriously, I GET it. Like a bad STD I get it and it won't ever leave my memory so stop reminding me I have it.

houstonmat
a year ago

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@houstonmat: It seems to only reappear after the cookies are cleared.

gregorylikescheaps…
a year ago

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Does this thing do more than "just be a hard drive". ! Terrabyte HD's are going for $109. at local stores. I guess less for more is better, and it looks like it will take a whole table top due to it's appearance. ??? Such a deal?

shiva023
a year ago

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@shiva023: If you buy your precious 1TB at the local store, your woot count stays the same. However, if you buy this unit here, NOT only do you get $5 shipping, but you inch ever closer to making it into heaven!

mesheler
a year ago

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@shive023:

You're missing the point of this device.

1. It is a media server for Xbox and PS3 - you can play movies direct off the device - no PC required
2. You can add a second device and add RAID
3. It will scan the network for media and back it up
4. You can expand it via USB

You're $109 drive can't do any of that.

grand_national
a year ago

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I think I'll save my money and buy a DLink Boxee when they come out. They have the outputs to the Display and sound system, ethernet interface, and I can buy a cheaper hard drive and attach it.

I'm not sure I'd even buy this if I had an xbox.

whizbang77045
a year ago

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so you get a RAID enclosure, and a network attached storage device that you can stream music, movies and pictures from a remote location, and upload to, for about $100 cheaper than anywhere else.

you can stream to your xbox360, and any wirelessly connected PCS in the house as well.

sold.

unlockedhed
a year ago

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Can you configure it to also backup non-media files (MS Office documents, etc)? Thanks.

peggenberger
a year ago

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Just get Windows7.

dfifo
a year ago

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This sounds like it is the answer to what I have been needing. Instead of moving movies & TV shows and such from the desktop (primary computer) to watch on PS3 or one of the 3 laptops within the household. We must have 20 thumb drives and small external drives scattered around. Also will be nice to not have to have the same mp3's on multiple computers just to listen to on each laptop. Hopefully it works as well as it sounds like it will.

hockeyfan977
a year ago

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per the specs:

"Remote access is free for the first year, and only $9.99 annually after that"

So they are going to charge me to access my NAS drive?

nemo728
a year ago

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@shiva023: I own one of these (I won it as first prize at a vendor fair), and it's actually pretty tiny. Y'know those "Entertainment" coupon books - think two of those standing upright next to each other (back cover of one facing front cover of the other).

It's a pretty nifty device, although don't try to use it while you're VPN'ed into your work network (you'll get kicked off). My only complaint with it is the interface is really klugy. Very hard to search for stuff, and I don't like the way it organizes information.

Yes, you can save other kinds of files on it - I use it to regularly back up my notebook -- so there's another use for this baby.

mariec23
a year ago

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"Remote Access" means access over the internet through their portal. You go to yourusername.someplace.com and have access to all the media on the device through a nifty web player and frontend. You don't have to set up dynamic DNS and punch a hole in your firewall. It's actually pretty slick. Access over your home network is always free.

Disclaimer - I work for Cisco. These things are still cool.

canoecrasher
a year ago

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@hockeyfan977
Be careful of data transfer rates. I have a 500gb HDD Network attached storage device, (not the one being sold) that can host a second usb drive. I can access it across the network from multiple computers, and that's great - but it is significantly slower than your regular usb eternal drives. 1 gigabyte takes ~ 30 minutes to transfer - not good when HD movies take up several.

Given, mine is an older device - but be careful before you buy.

scheindown
a year ago

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