Reply to: External Hard Drive - Wireless

[fzbucks]

I got a Freecom Wireless Media Player

came with a 500GB HDD, wireless or wired and plugs directly into the TV so I can watch downloaded videos- has a raft of connections on the back and only about the size of a router

It cost me 190 cleggies nearly a year ago - should be cheaper now

[Fred Bloggs]

A quick bit of google-fu brought up this:

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Arch.../msg00217.html

I know you aren't using Ubuntu but the mount commands should be identical.

Wow, thank you!

[Ardesco]

A quick bit of google-fu brought up this:

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Arch.../msg00217.html

I know you aren't using Ubuntu but the mount commands should be identical.

[Fred Bloggs]

The box is running on a Linux distro if remember correctly so it must be compatible. Probably needs obvious but hidden setting to be turned on somewhere

Very interesting. Buffalo ignored my email when I asked about Linux compatibility. I'll have to take another look.

[Ardesco]

Apologies, only just seen this. OpenSuse v10.1. Actually, Buffalo doesn't claim Linux compatibility on their website. But I didn't know that when I bought the Buffalo. No problems at all using the Buffalo box either as a print server or a network drive under Windoze XP. 5 networked PC's, 2 by ethernet cable, 3 wifi all of them via BT Voyager router. HTH.

The box is running on a Linux distro if remember correctly so it must be compatible. Probably needs obvious but hidden setting to be turned on somewhere

[Fred Bloggs]

Fred - is the drive formatted as NTFS or FAT32? And which version of SUSE are you on? Could this be the problem?

Apologies, only just seen this. OpenSuse v10.1. Actually, Buffalo doesn't claim Linux compatibility on their website. But I didn't know that when I bought the Buffalo. No problems at all using the Buffalo box either as a print server or a network drive under Windoze XP. 5 networked PC's, 2 by ethernet cable, 3 wifi all of them via BT Voyager router. HTH.

[Ardesco]

For external wireless drive, I would opt for the Apple Time Capsule. It als acts as a wireless router so you can share printers etc.....HTH

Only has one drive in it if I remember correctly. I would never use a file server that only had one drive, you want a raid mirror at the very least. You don't want to lose everything when your drive dies.

[TheFaQQer]

I looked at various NAS (wired and wireless) etc. a while back. I used a Netgear SC101 for a while, but it was tulipe.

Now, I just share a folder on my desktop PC across the network and leave the machine switched on. Install go2mypc and I can access it remotely if need be.

[daviejones]

For external wireless drive, I would opt for the Apple Time Capsule. It als acts as a wireless router so you can share printers etc.....HTH

[TheFaQQer]

Sorry to be so Naive..but what is a CAT5? Is that the Good old ethernet Cable?

Yes.

Can pick up and old PC and a big hard-drive for less than that. Connect via CAT5 to the router and you can access it from anywhere if you have a little network set up and do simple file sharing.

I have got one of these:
http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/sear...&fsop=1&fsoo=1

Chuck a 750GB SATA drive in it and use a USB wireless adapter and you would be sorted:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131436
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/60014

Roughly the same cost as the freecom gadget - approx £200 but you can do much more with this. Whack VM ware on it and use it as a DEV box, sort out remote desktop on an odd port and connect to it from work, all sorts. I also intend to connect mine to the TV and stereo and play MP3's and TV Progs / Films on it. One day I will have the time to sort it out I am sure

Sorry to be so Naive..but what is a CAT5? Is that the Good old ethernet Cable?

[ferret]

Fred - is the drive formatted as NTFS or FAT32? And which version of SUSE are you on? Could this be the problem?

[Fred Bloggs]

I have a 320Gb one of these Buffalo devices connected to my router by LAN cable. 5 PC's in the house in total and all access this drive via the router. One feature worth noting is that it has 2 x USB2 ports that can used to network a printer or add more USB hard drive storage. Only drawback found so far is that if I boot the dual boot PC's into Suse Linux, then the Linux OS can't open the drive, though it does "see it". HTH.

http://www.buffalo-technology.com/pr...n/linkstation/

[ferret]

Can pick up and old PC and a big hard-drive for less than that. Connect via CAT5 to the router and you can access it from anywhere if you have a little network set up and do simple file sharing.

I have got one of these:
http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/sear...&fsop=1&fsoo=1

Chuck a 750GB SATA drive in it and use a USB wireless adapter and you would be sorted:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131436
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/60014

Roughly the same cost as the freecom gadget - approx £200 but you can do much more with this. Whack VM ware on it and use it as a DEV box, sort out remote desktop on an odd port and connect to it from work, all sorts. I also intend to connect mine to the TV and stereo and play MP3's and TV Progs / Films on it. One day I will have the time to sort it out I am sure

[moorfield]

Freecom FSG-3 Storage Gateway

I'm looking for something similar, that preferably I can access over my wireless setup from various laptops around the house for photos music etc, currently considering one of these once the price drops a little.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Freecom-STOR...5625259&sr=8-1