Network Hard drive???

shagstlmshagstlm
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
I know this is kina a weird question. I wanted to know if anyone knew of a hard drive type thing...not a server...that i could connect to my network using just an ethernet cable and would allow me to store some larger files that I dont want to eat up space on my PB...I dont even know if there is such a thing. I want something that is small to medium sized...thanks for all your help.



Chris



ps I know a server is an option but i really dont another computer...just a little drive! Thanks

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 5
    ebbyebby Posts: 3,110member
    What you are looking for is called NAS (Network Attached storage) This stuff is very pricy. I know Iomega makes one, but it is expensive. I saw another a few weeks ago (Sorry, I forgot the name or company) that used firewire ports to build a RAID array and also attached to a 10/100/1000 network for a network drive. May be overkill, but I wanted one.



    Sooooo expensive. <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
  • Reply 2 of 5
    shagstlmshagstlm Posts: 112member
    i looked at some of them and they are really expensive!!! do you know of anyother way to get some storage on network? without having a fw hard drive attached to the computer...



    chris
  • Reply 3 of 5
    trailmaster308trailmaster308 Posts: 699member
    Is there a reason that you don't want just an external firewire HD? Do you want a drive to share on the network with other users, but not have it connected to your laptop?



    FYI - Linksys NAS about $480 at buy.com.



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  • Reply 4 of 5
    shagstlmshagstlm Posts: 112member
    yeah i want to share the files with the other computer in my house...ie mp3s and stuff like that...i really just want something dedicated that will sit there and give me lots of HD Space.



    thanks for the buy.com thing

    chris
  • Reply 5 of 5
    mrbilldatamrbilldata Posts: 489member
    What you have described is a file server ( a dedicated system that provides large amounts of sharable resources ).



    No matter what you think you want or need. The solutions will require hardware that isn't cheap.



    Sorry but I don't know that there is a cheaper way.
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