Networked hard drive

Have you looked at any of the drive enclosures they sell at places like best buy? (inside place an IDE drive, back of the cabinet has a ethernet jack and plugs right into your wap/router thing...

Here's one I pulled up...

Model: SC101

When you need to add on some extra storage to your network, don't be limited by a fixed gigabyte amount. With this hard drive enclosure, you can easily add internal drives of any capacity (not included) to your network and change to larger capacities when needed without fuss. Take a product tour of the Netgear SC101 Storage Central. (Flash demo) Easily insert up to two internal 3.5" ATA6 or higher IDE hard drives of any capacity (not included) for extra networked storage

Configures quickly with Smart Wizard install assistant to any 10/100 Mbps Ethernet or wireless router

Stores and mirrors important digital content, such as music, games, photos, documents and more

Sounds like what you asked about.....

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Something like this, maybe? $70 or so at newegg.

Look for a Linksys NSLU2. It has 2 usb ports (for your drives) and an ethernet connection, to get it on your network. Nice little unit. You can also access your drives (files) over the internet if you like....

I'd read this first.

That link didnt work for some reason....try again.

Cheers

Rob

Grrr...bloody newsreader putting a para break in for some reason....one more go. If it doesnt work again try a cut and paste into word and remove line break.

These user reviews may be of interest also.

Cheers

Rob

Seconded. I have one - nice piece of kit - and you can have even more fun with it - if you want as well :

I also have the LinkSys. It is been serving its purpose flawlessly. Also, when shopping for a NAS unit (Network Added Storage) the Netgear unit has recently gotten flack as to compatibility of hard drives. So make sure you explore that limitation.

Surrounding a long URL with < and > should work in most newsreaders.

Thanks for that one.

Cheers

Rob