I need some advice on BIG external storage units

David Vincent dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca
Sat May 10 13:59:44 UTC 2008


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Tom Rausner wrote:
> fre, 09 05 2008 kl. 16:02 -0700, skrev Steven Davies-Morris:
>
>> About 18 months ago I put 250gb Buffalo external storage units into my
>> customers' stores.  These have a Hitachi drive in them IIRC and are both
>> USB 2 + ethernet connectable.  I imagine they have a 1 TB model, or
>> bigger, by now. Regardless of the mfg, I'd go with one that has an
>> ethernet 192.168.x.x addressable device 'cos then it won't matter what
>> O/S you're hooked up to.
>
> Good point !

Be careful - I have a "Ximeta NDAS" external 120gb with a network
interface on it, that interface only works with Windows after you load
some crap driver which makes it BSOD.  :)  Sharing it via USB works
great and this one doesn't spin down.

I've been looking at this for a while, waiting to build my own external
storage solution:

http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1175243283014&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper&lid=8301433766B01

If that link is broken:

*http://tinyurl.com/56mabz

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