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Any NAS drive that has ethernet and USB connectivity?
I am looking for a NAS (Network Attached Storage) to use with my home
LAN (using a Linksys router). Examples are the Maxtor Shared Storage, WD MyBook World Edition and Linksys NAS200. Being the paranoid type, I am wondering how I would access my data if there is a hardware or software failure. Like what if I am having network connectivity because of faulty router? Is there a NAS solution that has both ethernet and USB connectivity? Aloke |
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Any NAS drive that has ethernet and USB connectivity?
Aloke Prasad schrieb:
I am looking for a NAS (Network Attached Storage) to use with my home LAN (using a Linksys router). Examples are the Maxtor Shared Storage, WD MyBook World Edition and Linksys NAS200. Being the paranoid type, I am wondering how I would access my data if there is a hardware or software failure. Like what if I am having network connectivity because of faulty router? Is there a NAS solution that has both ethernet and USB connectivity? Aloke http://www.trekstor.de/en/products/d...p?pid=11&cat=0 http://www.freecom.com/ecproduct_det...sCatID=1146196 http://www.conceptronic.net/site/des...3LAN&subid=559 http://buffalotech.com/products/netw...e/linkstation/ |
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Any NAS drive that has ethernet and USB connectivity?
Jesco Lincke wrote: Aloke Prasad schrieb: I am looking for a NAS (Network Attached Storage) to use with my home LAN (using a Linksys router). Examples are the Maxtor Shared Storage, WD MyBook World Edition and Linksys NAS200. Being the paranoid type, I am wondering how I would access my data if there is a hardware or software failure. Like what if I am having network connectivity because of faulty router? Is there a NAS solution that has both ethernet and USB connectivity? Aloke http://www.trekstor.de/en/products/d...p?pid=11&cat=0 http://www.freecom.com/ecproduct_det...sCatID=1146196 http://www.conceptronic.net/site/des...3LAN&subid=559 http://buffalotech.com/products/netw...e/linkstation/ Thanks!! It appears that the Buffalotech products use the USB ports to expand the storage (by attachung extra drives (much like the Maxtor and WD products). I don't think the device will use the USB port to connect to a PC as a drive. But the other 3 (trekstor, freecom, conceptronic) seems to be doing what I was asking for. I hope these are available in US. Strange that I have not seen these mentioned in any reviews in the US. Aloke |
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Any NAS drive that has ethernet and USB connectivity?
In article , Aloke Prasad
wrote: Being the paranoid type, I am wondering how I would access my data if there is a hardware or software failure. Like what if I am having network connectivity because of faulty router? Is there a NAS solution that has both ethernet and USB connectivity? There's a number out there. I got one from Maplin (electronics retailer in the UK, http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...No=97390&crite ria=) which worked fine ... until I got somewhere not far above 10,000 files on it, in various folders. Then it would start spontaneously and irregularly forgetting file names and directory trees WHEN seen through the Windows File Sharing interface. Look into the device through the FTP interface and all the data is there though. Very bizarre, appears to be some bug in the implementation of Samba, for which the only cure was to power-cycle the machine. A warm boot wouldn't cure it. The file system used on the hard drive was straightforward FAT32, so in the event of the NIC/ Samba/ USB/ IDE controller going down, you always had the option of pulling the drive, slapping it into a conventional caddy and recovering your data from there on any machine that supported FAT32. In that device (made I think by "Bona Computech" http://www.bona.com.tw:8080/home.php), the Samba bug was a disabling feature. Both Bona and Maplin appear to have updated their ranges now. -- Aidan Karley Aberdeen, Scotland Written at Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:37 +0100, but posted later. Using VA 5.51 build 315 under Windows 2000 build 2195. |
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Any NAS drive that has ethernet and USB connectivity?
Aloke Prasad wrote: Jesco Lincke wrote: Aloke Prasad schrieb: I am looking for a NAS (Network Attached Storage) to use with my home LAN (using a Linksys router). Examples are the Maxtor Shared Storage, WD MyBook World Edition and Linksys NAS200. Being the paranoid type, I am wondering how I would access my data if there is a hardware or software failure. Like what if I am having network connectivity because of faulty router? Is there a NAS solution that has both ethernet and USB connectivity? Aloke http://www.trekstor.de/en/products/d...p?pid=11&cat=0 http://www.freecom.com/ecproduct_det...sCatID=1146196 http://www.conceptronic.net/site/des...3LAN&subid=559 http://buffalotech.com/products/netw...e/linkstation/ Thanks!! It appears that the Buffalotech products use the USB ports to expand the storage (by attachung extra drives (much like the Maxtor and WD products). I don't think the device will use the USB port to connect to a PC as a drive. But the other 3 (trekstor, freecom, conceptronic) seems to be doing what I was asking for. I hope these are available in US. Strange that I have not seen these mentioned in any reviews in the US. This device seems to have all the features I am looking for. LACIE 301156U Ethernet Big Disk $279 at Newegg http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=10882 Anyone have any feedback on this? Is it reliable? Aloke |
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