One phat hi-tech home theatre, gaming system - Via Computerworld Blogs:
If you attend Storage Networking World and walk the exposition floor, you're sure to see more spinning disk subsystems, robotic tape libraries, blinking Fibre Channel switches and screens displaying management software than you can shake a stick at, but the one thing you don't expect to see is one of the nicest home theatre systems money can buy streaming downloaded movies, games and photos through wired and wirelsss links from a consumer-grade server to a state-of-the-art Pioneer 50" plasma 1080p TV. Everyone stopped by this vendor's booth.
The home theatre set up came courtesy of Intel Corp., which had the system on display to show off its Entry Storage System SS4200-E home NAS server. All at the same time, the server was connected to a 24" iMac, an Apple TV, an Xbox 360, a Wii, an iPod Touch, a Nokia N810 mobile Internet tablet, and a 15" wireless digital picture frame from Spectrum Digital. Flat screens of varying sizes surrounded the booth displaying the NAS server's ability to handle multiple video streams.
The server, which has four disk bays, was set up with 2TB capacity but expands to 4TB using 1TB SATA drives. The server allows the movies, games, etc. to be displayed in a menu on the plasma TV screen. Susan Bobholz, Ecosystem Enablement Manager with Intel's Storage Group, gave our videographer a quick run down on the system, which you can watch here:
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