I've got a D-Link DNS 323 and use it for backing up things (along with S3 uploads for offsite). I also used it to stream music and movies to our laptops and PS3 and it works well. I just got a PS3 recently and was surprised that the D-Link had a built-in DLNA compliant server that "just worked".
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Mr O <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > -- -Rob _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
