Has anybody used a device like this to share an iTunes library?
http://www.addonics.com/products/nas/NAS25HDU2.asp


Wonder if my AppleTVs would connect to it....

11/17/2009 10:15:47 PM

they couldn't spring for gigabit?

personally, i'd rather just get an external drive with eSATA

11/17/2009 10:30:16 PM

I would rather see gigabit myself.

However, if I could move my iTunes library off the desktop and share it on this the power savings alone would be worth the effort!

Anybody have some experience with a NAS that says it will share an iTunes library?

11/18/2009 7:04:04 AM

I also saw this device on multiple blogs yesterday and was curious if I could set it up to work with iTunes.

11/18/2009 9:12:10 AM

that's pretty cool. agreed on the need for gigabit, though

[Edited on November 18, 2009 at 10:21 AM. Reason : ^yes, you should be able to]

11/18/2009 10:21:32 AM

I have this NAS device that will share iTunes stuff:
http://go.iomega.com/en-us/products/network-storage-desktop/home-network-hard-drives/home-media/?partner=4760

11/18/2009 11:38:38 AM

Quote :

"I would rather see gigabit myself."

ok, i'll bite.

What does gigabit buy you for the purposes of sharing an iTunes library?

11/18/2009 1:19:16 PM

For me it would be streaming movies.

I just upgraded and got a time capsule that's gigabit. Before everything was 100. I would get some jitter and my Apple TV would hang. Now I have had zero issues and I was at one point thinking it was the Apple TV crapping out.

11/18/2009 1:31:25 PM

yeah if i were using this, i sure wouldn't be using it just for itunes

11/18/2009 1:32:47 PM

Quote :

"What does gigabit buy you for the purposes of sharing an iTunes library?"

Not a damn thing - it's a rare consumer grade NAS that can deliver a disk throughput > 10Mbps

11/18/2009 3:20:43 PM

^ well, correct me if i'm wrong, but that's assuming bottleneck is going to be in the I/O bus. Given that this (and most consumer grade ones these days) NAS uses SATA, the bottleneck is either going to be in the NIC or the HDD itself.

No 2.5" HDD can push even SATA 1 to it's max, but a higher end drive, and esp. an SSD could easily exceed 100Mbps.

11/18/2009 3:51:18 PM

^^, ^ yeah that's a good point. in most cases the gigabit is probably gonna be worthless

11/18/2009 4:08:31 PM