I have a drobo on order coming soon. It's insanely expensive, but it's going to be cheaper than building a dedicated computer to do the same thing. Around $650 diskless for the new drobo and the droboshare networking device, I have a bunch of 750gb drives to put in there. cheers, jane
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:22 AM, VaShaun Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I want the DroBo especially since it just got upgraded to firewire. > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by > theblind" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 5:37 AM > Subject: Re: Connecting multiple computers to one hard drive > > > Hi Alex, >> That's not necessarily true. The general term for that is a NAS (network >> attached storage), and more devices than the airport networking hardware >> from Apple support that type of usage. It ranges from a single hard drive >> NAS device (like the Western Digital MyBook World Edition) to very >> expensive >> redundant storage like the Drobo with a device called DroboShare (both >> together are about $4-700 depending on which model you buy, BEFORE hard >> drives!). And if you have a computer to spare, you can set up your >> computer >> to share that hard drive over the network to others, but that computer >> would >> have to be on every time you'd want to use it on another. >> >> Also, Apple does sell a single device called Time Capsule that combines >> the >> Airport networking hardware with a hard drive, but in my opinion it's sort >> of overpriced and inconvenient if the hard drive ever fails. >> >> cheers, >> jane >> >> On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Alex Jurgensen` <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >wrote: >> >> Hi, >>> You could actually share it over the network by attaching it via USB >>> 2.0 to an Airport express, Airport extreeme or one of the computers on >>> the network. If using the third option, it is possible to use >>> firewire. I recommend using the airport method. It worked really well >>> for me. >>> Thanks for listening, >>> Alex, >>> >> > >
