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External Hard drive with network interface

  • 08-04-2008 12:27pm
    #1
    peustace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 331 ✭✭


    Hi,
    Was looking at buying an external hard drive which can be accessed over a wireless home network. I was looking at the Western Digital My Book World Edition II 1TB NAS (http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=332166 but the reviews seem pretty poor.

    What I'd like to have is to be able to access this hard drive wirelessly at anytime, wether its plugged into a PC or not?
    Any ideas?
    Thanks
    Pat


Comments

  • #2
    degsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,759 ✭✭✭degsie


    I use this enclosure from Maplin. Just fit an IDE harddrive. Works great for me.
    This is hardwired but can be accessed wirelessly via my wireless gateway/router. Has inbuilt ftp server also.


  • #3
    darraghrogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 309 ✭✭darraghrogan


    NAS's are a great idea. Not to step on degsie's toes, but be careful with enclosures - they may be loud, vibrate excessively or run hot (the last two could leave you shafted by a premature hdd death)

    other than that - just check the bandwidths good!

    d


  • #4
    peustace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 331 ✭✭peustace


    thanks for the help guys. i have one other quick question.

    i've eventually decided on the Zyxel NSA-220 NAS With RAID and i've picked out a nice 750 gb harddrive. The wireless router i'm using in the house is the Belkin N Wireless Modem Router.

    How would I set up this NAS? Is it just a case of pluggin it into one of the wired ports for pcs on the router?

    Thanks for the help
    Pat


  • #5
    degsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,759 ✭✭✭degsie


    Yeah, just hardwire it to a spare port. You can assign a static/dynamic ip for the NAS. Just be careful that the NAS is not set up as a DHCP server if your router has this enabled already. You can also assign the NAS a workgroup name for file sharing etc.


  • #6
    darraghrogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 309 ✭✭darraghrogan


    degsie wrote: »
    Yeah, just hardwire it to a spare port. You can assign a static/dynamic ip for the NAS. Just be careful that the NAS is not set up as a DHCP server if your router has this enabled already. You can also assign the NAS a workgroup name for file sharing etc.

    Another thing to look out for is location of the device. Somewhere cool, and where it won't vibrate, or cause irritation cause of noise

    D


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  • #7
    Ronan H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,058 ✭✭✭Ronan H


    I'm not really down with the speed of these things. I know they differ but in comparison to file transfer over a wired USB 2.0 connection between a laptop and an external HD how would they compare, over a wireless network that is?

    Also to OP peustace, how has yours worked out so far?

    Thanks.

    Head


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