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Network disk storage Eric Baines 06-09-2008
Posted by Eric Baines on June 9, 2008, 7:30 am
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I'm interested in putting some network disk storage on my home network. Could
I use this to store MCE content on (eg recorded TV) and access it from my MCE?

I've heard horror stories of network disks coming FAT32, and so only being
able to store files of up to 4Gb - which is obviously a bit of a limitation
for recorded TV files.

To be honest, I'm not looking for masive extra storage. 250Gb would be
excellent, 500Gb would be mind boggling.

Does anyone have any experience or recommendation for affordable network
storage for MCE?

Posted by Doug Knox - [MS-MVP] on June 9, 2008, 8:34 am
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By default, MCE will not record to a networked share/device. You can copy
the Recorded TV content to a NAS and then map that folder to your My Videos
and watch the Recorded TV from there. MCE was not really intended to to
handle recorded tv in a networked storage scenario.

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> I'm interested in putting some network disk storage on my home network.
> Could
> I use this to store MCE content on (eg recorded TV) and access it from my
> MCE?
>
> I've heard horror stories of network disks coming FAT32, and so only being
> able to store files of up to 4Gb - which is obviously a bit of a
> limitation
> for recorded TV files.
>
> To be honest, I'm not looking for masive extra storage. 250Gb would be
> excellent, 500Gb would be mind boggling.
>
> Does anyone have any experience or recommendation for affordable network
> storage for MCE?


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