Wifi Multimedia Hard Drive?

paddylonglegs

Have been searching a bit to see if these exist in some form:

I want to be able to backup my apple mac harddrive over wifi. This is where Apple Time Capsule comes in. It also acts as a wifi booster router: http://store.apple.com/ie/product/MB765B/A/Time-Capsule-1TB?fnode=MTY1NDA0Nw&mco=NDE4NTE1Mg

I would also like to have this device hooked up to my tv so I could access the content on it and play it on my tv like a multimedia hdd. If the time capsule was able to do this I would be sorted but it looks like i'll just have to buy a seperate unit like this sleek lacie for instance:
http://www.lacie.com/ie/products/product.htm?pid=11075

The Lacinema Black MAX is getting there by having an ethernet port for network sharing but doesn't contain wifi

http://www.lacie.com/ie/products/product.htm?pid=11223

So has anyone come across such a machine in their travels or am i dreaming?

Cheers

FredH3as

try www.xtreamer.net

paddylonglegs

FredH3as wrote: »

try www.xtreamer.net

Ooo that looks to be just the ticket.only downside is the restriction of the 500gb drive.However there is the option of adding an external drive which is good and hopefully not too messy.

cheers fredh3as

MediaTank

www.popcornhour.com should do it for you.

Scruff

Do not buy an xtreamer!!!!
At least not until they get their supply to distribution chain sorted. I ordered mine on July 14th and they charged my paypal ac straight away but i'm still waiting for it to be shipped. Complete joke of a customer "service". The amount of un happy customers on their official forums waiting for the product to be shipped is ridiculous (me included :mad:)

paddylonglegs

Scruff wrote: »

Do not buy an xtreamer!!!!
At least not until they get their supply to distribution chain sorted. I ordered mine on July 14th and they charged my paypal ac straight away but i'm still waiting for it to be shipped. Complete joke of a customer "service". The amount of un happy customers on their official forums waiting for the product to be shipped is ridiculous (me included :mad:)

THanks for the tip scruff, i really had been considering this. Let us know what its like when it arrives.

MediaTank wrote: »

www.popcornhour.com should do it for you.

This looks good too. Its not too clear, but can i put an internal hdd in it to hold files?

Do you have this media tank?

MediaTank

paddylonglegs wrote: »

This looks good too. Its not too clear, but can i put an internal hdd in it to hold files?

Do you have this media tank?

Yes you can put a hard drive in. I have one from a differernet manufacturer - ISTAR. There's lots of these NMT based devices about - eGreat, HDX are two more for example.

What's really great about the NMT devices is the user community who have developed hundreds of apps for these devices.

paddylonglegs

cheers mediatank. So just to confirm a few questions i have - I can move any kind of files from my pc to the popcornhour, and I can work on them through my pc as I go. For example I'd like to be able to work on photoshop or illustrator, but don't want to save them to my own hard drive as its quite full.

Also, is it possible to use on mac?I didn't see that on the spec sheet.

Cheers again

MediaTank

paddylonglegs wrote: »

cheers mediatank. So just to confirm a few questions i have - I can move any kind of files from my pc to the popcornhour, and I can work on them through my pc as I go. For example I'd like to be able to work on photoshop or illustrator, but don't want to save them to my own hard drive as its quite full.

Also, is it possible to use on mac?I didn't see that on the spec sheet.

Cheers again

Yes and yes. With a HD installed the PCH becomes a NAS, so you can work with files over SMB (SAMBA).