Ethernet Hard Drive
 

Anyone got an ethernet hard drive?

Im looking to buy one to attach to a router so that there's a common storage point for all of the machines on the network.

Im aware of LACIE's (500Gb for about £250) but was wondering if anyone has one, or another brand and wanted to share their experiences in terms of speed, reliability, noise and heat generation.

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250 quid seems expensive when I could build you a 500 gig storage pc you can network for that

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Zing, are you any good with busted hard drives? My 250gb external drive is reporting its corrupted. It's got lots of. erm linux distros and stuff on there and it would like to get the data off it.

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true but i dont want the heat and noise etc

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eeeek is it a sealed box? might be worth seeing if theres a standard ide interface there.

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oyyyy get your own thread :D

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if you could source an old PII it could be silent running. Its just the 500 gig for 250 quid is to high a price imo but im sure it will suit,

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There are cheaper options Western Digi do a 500Gb for £200

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Try http://www.dabs.com/ProductList.aspx...lectedId=11157
1.6TB netowork HDs for £850

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Heres a thought.
You can buy ide to usb 2 adapters so why cant you buy a usb to ethernet adapter would this show a device errmmmm I got myself pondering.It prob wont work as there will need to be a controller but I wonder

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That would be more like it

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whats your experience with it?:rolleyes:

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a lot to got wrong and lose all at once

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£100 for 250Gb, i might consider this, 500Gb was only being greedy

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=87153

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how many machines is this gonna network between? These do look like a good move in the rigth enviroment but my main machine doubles as a server across the network as its always on so its way more flexible.But for a network where there isnt a machine on all the time it is a good idea

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Its a home network which has

2 PC's hard wired
1 laptop wireless
1 PDA wireless

none of which are permenantly on

Im now looking at mediaplayers like these (see below) which for not much more would allow me to stream through my home cinema without putting stuff onto CD or DVD

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/104084

hmmm decisions decisions. I might try the trump card of "I want a new PC Mr Evesham, give me a media player for free and ill pay cash up front" ;)