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Best server option for powered USB drives?

  • 27-05-2012 1:03pm
    #1
    seanp_25
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 230 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I have two USB external drives (2TB and 1TB) that I'd like to share over the network. Fairly new to this.

    I'd like to be able to access these drives from XBMC (running on Windows and soon Raspberry Pi). It would be great if I could access them through Windows Explorer also to copy files on to them. Being able to access them from Android would be a bonus.

    I bought one of these but it seems to need it's own Windows software to be running on the PC. The drives connected to that server can then be accessed from My Computer.

    Is something like this what I need? I'm not so sure because it only seems to have one USB port, and I don't have any internal SATA drives I want to connect. The Bittorrent features of lots of these NAS servers don't interest me either, and I'd prefer something that's not noisy.

    The cheap adapter (from the dealextreme link) seems to be what I'm looking for, only couldn't get it to work with uPNP/DLNA. Any tips for something similar that will do this?


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  • #2
    Knasher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭Knasher


    I'd recommend getting a plug computer that has a bit of a community around it. I'd recommend the pogoplug classic as it looks pretty cheep and comes with 4 usb ports. You can either see if the included software meets your needs or alternatively flash it with an alternative linux distro and configure however you want.

    Windows and XBMC streaming are covered by samba, streaming to android is a little bit more complicated as it depends on what your phone can support, so I can't help you there.

    By the way I'd be surprised if that cheap adapter doesn't support samba (generally I'd expect something like that to be running linux so it is a simple matter for the manufacturer to include samba), which is what linux uses to support windows network sharing. I'm not familiar with it so I can't give you specific advice, but I'd be surprised if it doesn't actually support everything you are asking it to do.


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