peasepud 59 Posted July 31, 2010 Share Posted July 31, 2010 I need an external hard drive and want to share it among a few machines so thoughts some form of NAS would be ideal but it seems theyre quite expensive (£180 for a 500Gb when I can pick up a 1Tb external HD for £70). Do I need a dedicated one or is there something I can buy cheaper to add on and make it shareable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammynb 3640 Posted July 31, 2010 Share Posted July 31, 2010 Western Digital do a 1TB My Book World Network Storage Drive for $249 = 140 quid on current exchange WD my book drive. The only other way is that you set up an external drive to one computer as a shared drive and network the others back to that box. It's not hard but obviously it is slower for the other network units to access the HD than using NAS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus 0 Posted July 31, 2010 Share Posted July 31, 2010 ive been looking at this too - been looking at the drobo devices. but theres a few things you can do - buy a cheapo pc case and fill it full of drives and attach it to your network is one way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6702 Posted July 31, 2010 Share Posted July 31, 2010 ive been looking at this too - been looking at the drobo devices. but theres a few things you can do - buy a cheapo pc case and fill it full of drives and attach it to your network is one way. I've teethed an old server from work that one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJS 4446 Posted July 31, 2010 Share Posted July 31, 2010 ive been looking at this too - been looking at the drobo devices. but theres a few things you can do - buy a cheapo pc case and fill it full of drives and attach it to your network is one way. I used to have 3 old pcs (in fact I still have them) filled with large (at the time) IDE hard drives - I had about 2tb in total. Last year I bought a Drobo and as the prices of drives came down, I filled it with 4x2TB drives and it works a treat - works out at 5.4TB storage fully protected. Having said that I recently used the two interim 1.5TB drives I'd bought while the big ones were still too pricey in a QNAP 2 drive NAS which is fucking superb - though using tradition RAID so only that 1.5TB available - the software with it is better than the Drobo and the transfer speed is about twice as high. The QNAP wasn't cheap though - about £140 "empty" IIRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus 0 Posted July 31, 2010 Share Posted July 31, 2010 The QNAP wasn't cheap though - about £140 "empty" IIRC. Ive just picked a 2tb seagate barracuda for £75 to add to my other 2 2tb drives. also spent the last hour cataloging the 3 drives to remove duplicates - they are full of hd films. im not bothered that the devices arrive 'empty' as ive already got the disks. i just want a nice tidy solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasepud 59 Posted July 31, 2010 Author Share Posted July 31, 2010 The QNAP wasn't cheap though - about £140 "empty" IIRC. Ive just picked a 2tb seagate barracuda for £75 to add to my other 2 2tb drives. also spent the last hour cataloging the 3 drives to remove duplicates - they are full of hd films. im not bothered that the devices arrive 'empty' as ive already got the disks. i just want a nice tidy solution. You have far too much porn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 11080 Posted July 31, 2010 Share Posted July 31, 2010 Hah. Nerds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus 0 Posted July 31, 2010 Share Posted July 31, 2010 The QNAP wasn't cheap though - about £140 "empty" IIRC. Ive just picked a 2tb seagate barracuda for £75 to add to my other 2 2tb drives. also spent the last hour cataloging the 3 drives to remove duplicates - they are full of hd films. im not bothered that the devices arrive 'empty' as ive already got the disks. i just want a nice tidy solution. You have far too much porn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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