External Hard Drive - Wireless

[Scutch]

Was just discussing the possibility of this with a work mate. Obviously transfer rates would suffer big style, but surely it would be cost effective to actual create something like this. Found this link anyway

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39157660,00.htm

Its the future...

 

[Mells]

I have a LAN network HDD on my wireless network i.e. one that can connect to a LAN and USB. It plugs into my router via a spare rj45 socket. Plus, I can access it from work like a server.

Only cost about £30 from ebay plus an old HDD.

 

[cava83]

Best way to do it really

NAS basically

 

[Rob Clark]

nas storage is nothing new, why you wuld want to do it over wifi is anyones guess as its crap. Only ever going to be used in the home market as work environment wouldnt put up with slow xfer rate and suspect wifi connectivity imho

 

[Jay_clio]

handy, means i can download music to anywere in the house and itl be on the External HD

 

[cava83]

Where did I say NAS is new

Anyhow, yap, wireless = pooh.

On average, most work networks are a gig.

 

[Longy]

Just set up a nice server in the attic with a raid 5 stream everything off it for laptops and the xbox 360 via wireless router.

 

[cava83]

That's OTT

Just set up a nice server in the attic with a raid 5 stream everything off it for laptops and the xbox 360 via wireless router.

 

[Longy]

That's OTT

Just set up a nice server in the attic with a raid 5 stream everything off it for laptops and the xbox 360 via wireless router.

Good fault tolerance though

 

[FiXX]

lol that press release is over 3 years old