Most of the one and two drive network enabled drives are horribly slow. If you want to be able to backup from multiple PCs though it is convenient. Just don't expect to stream or anything. And, as is the case for any backup, always be sure your data is in at least two locations. Otherwise it's not a backup. Can't tell you how many external drives I've seen fail and people are just less than not smart enough to have kept the data in its original location too!
--- On Sat, 7/10/10, JS Kaplan <[email protected]> wrote: From: JS Kaplan <[email protected]> Subject: [Eug-lug] networked storage To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, July 10, 2010, 9:13 AM Greetings Faire goers and normies alike I'm using a Linksys WRT110 router and mixed OS's on this side. Question about inexpensive hard disk storage options: WD has 1.5TB USB external for $84 through my pal Mike Dell. There seems to be a few>500GB drives with Ethernet sockets in the <$150 bracket. I'm notoriously cheap, so I lean towards the WD as a disposable, but thinking forward perhaps I want to spend a few extra $ for less Tera bytes and more connection options? So, portable vs. network; what is the consensus from users? TIA Kaplan The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. Get busy. -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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