wireless router + external hard disk connection
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Posted by raghav on April 16, 2008, 10:08 am
Please log in for more thread options I want to buy myself a router, that takes in a wan connection and allows few lan connections. the Lan connections should be on ethernet AND on wireless both. I know, thats a simple thing to buy. But, I want another feature from the router, which I cant seem to find. (Or may be I am looking for a diff term). I want that my External hard disk should be attached to the router so that its available to the whole internal network as a network disk. Is that possible ? are there products in market allowing something like that ? Or is my wish something absurd ? better ways of achieving the same thing ? I think AirPort Express/Extreme from Apple allow something like that. I am a non-apple user and still want similar behaviour.. possible ? too much to ask for ?? pls suggest .. cheers raghav.. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by SMS on April 16, 2008, 12:08 pm
Please log in for more thread options Buy a drive enclosure with an Ethernet interface and plug it into the router, i.e. a Coolmax CN-350, "http://tinyurl.com/5mbcom" Or you can buy a complete drive with an Ethernet interface, i.e. "http://tinyurl.com/6gaaj3" I do exactly what you're doing. Remember, the drive will always be on, it doesn't hibernate. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by gene martinez on April 16, 2008, 2:33 pm
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>Hi,
If you get a usb type drive you can take a look at something like the
> >I want to buy myself a router, that takes in a wan connection and >allows few lan connections. the Lan connections should be on ethernet >AND on wireless both. > >I know, thats a simple thing to buy. > >But, I want another feature from the router, which I cant seem to >find. (Or may be I am looking for a diff term). I want that my >External hard disk should be attached to the router so that its >available to the whole internal network as a network disk. > >Is that possible ? are there products in market allowing something >like that ? >Or is my wish something absurd ? better ways of achieving the same >thing ? > >I think AirPort Express/Extreme from Apple allow something like that. >I am a non-apple user and still want similar behaviour.. > Linksys NSLU2. I have it working with (2) usb drives. Another nice thing is (if you need/want it) you can access the drives over the internet. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Neill Massello on April 16, 2008, 6:13 pm
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> I think AirPort Express/Extreme from Apple allow something like that.
> I am a non-apple user and still want similar behaviour.. The file server built in to the Apple AirPort Extreme base station can service both Windows (SMB) and Mac (AFP) clients. The AirPort Express base station has a USB print server but no file server. Apple's Time Capsule integrates an Extreme base station with an SATA hard drive and power supply in a single box. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Bob Smith on April 17, 2008, 2:08 am
Please log in for more thread options On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:08:50 -0700 (PDT), raghav
What your looking for is Network Attached Storage or commonly called NAS devices. The NAS device is basically a computer with a network card and hard drives that you assign an IP address to and are able to access the hard drives from any computer on the network It's connected to the network via a cat5 cable which you can plug into the router check the link below. NAS storage is operating system flexible. They usually all have the hard drives formatted with FAT32 (similar to the USB convention) but you can format them for apple only or NTFS for Windows XP and above. http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,1738,677853,00.asp hope this helps, they are a little pricy and have various options Bob Roibert Smith Consulting >Hi,
> >I want to buy myself a router, that takes in a wan connection and >allows few lan connections. the Lan connections should be on ethernet >AND on wireless both. > >I know, thats a simple thing to buy. > >But, I want another feature from the router, which I cant seem to >find. (Or may be I am looking for a diff term). I want that my >External hard disk should be attached to the router so that its >available to the whole internal network as a network disk. > >Is that possible ? are there products in market allowing something >like that ? >Or is my wish something absurd ? better ways of achieving the same >thing ? > >I think AirPort Express/Extreme from Apple allow something like that. >I am a non-apple user and still want similar behaviour.. > >possible ? >too much to ask for ?? > >pls suggest .. > >cheers >raghav.. | |||||||||||||
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> I want to buy myself a router, that takes in a wan connection and
> allows few lan connections. the Lan connections should be on ethernet
> AND on wireless both.
>
> I know, thats a simple thing to buy.
>
> But, I want another feature from the router, which I cant seem to
> find. (Or may be I am looking for a diff term). I want that my
> External hard disk should be attached to the router so that its
> available to the whole internal network as a network disk.