Reply to: External wireless hard drives

[~Craig~]

Western Digital WDH1U10000 for £64.

no network port or wireless

[Clippy]

Anybody know of any decent wireless external hard drives around the 1Tb size ? I was looking at the Freecom 1Tb Datatank on dabs.com and seems to have good reviews. Seems to have gone up in price recently though .... that pesky pound again no doubt.

Western Digital WDH1U10000 for £64.

[Fred Bloggs]

I'm thinking of getting one of these an plugging it into my wireless router:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/126893

add a 750gb sata drive and it comes in at £100

Seems a good plan to me.

[~Craig~]

Those are for printers aren't they?

What you want is a NAS with cheap 'n cheerful ethernet through a wire (or four wires to be strictly accurate).

I'm thinking of getting one of these an plugging it into my wireless router:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/126893

add a 750gb sata drive and it comes in at £100

[VectraMan]

Maybe wireless is a bit slow for backups.
I've got a spare usb port on my bt home hub - that should do the trick shouldn't it ?

Those are for printers aren't they?

What you want is a NAS with cheap 'n cheerful ethernet through a wire (or four wires to be strictly accurate).

[adestor]

Maybe wireless is a bit slow for backups.
I've got a spare usb port on my bt home hub - that should do the trick shouldn't it ?

[AtW]

What about backups?

Use RAID on your storage box - wireless in this case is just another interface, nothing stops this box from also using wires.

I prefer wired network too as even 1 Gbits is not fast enough if you copy a lot of data (many terabytes).

[VectraMan]

Terrabyte

Terrabit.

1Tb is what you said in your original post, which is 128GB.

I also don't understand why you'd want wireless. Just connect it to a wireless router and have the benefit of both.

[Sysman]

Stream those movies to ones big LCD screen player or something like this...

What about backups?

To be honest I'd want my drives on a hard wired network, where I can upload to them, back them up etc, and then use wireless to serve up data on demand.

[AtW]

Why would the storage need to be wireless?

Stream those movies to ones big LCD screen player or something like this...

[pmeswani]

Why would the storage need to be wireless?

I use a Netgear ReadyNAS which is connected wired into my network, but laptops can access it through the wireless router.

I agree. If one needs to plug the Network Aware Hard drive onto the network and is nowhere near the Router, get a HomePlug and encrypt the traffic with AES. That's what I have done for my Network USB Hub.

[Gonzo]

Why would the storage need to be wireless?

I use a Netgear ReadyNAS which is connected wired into my network, but laptops can access it through the wireless router.

[PRC1964]

I've got a couple of 1.5 Tb Maxtors. They're not wireless though. I wouldn't trust my wireless network to transfer any serious amount of data.

[adestor]

1 terra bit!? That's a 'bit' big isnt it?

Terrabyte

Well no, actually. I've got my PC and the missus laptop with video and all. You'd be surprised how quickly it all builds up.

[BolshieBastard]

1 terra bit!? That's a 'bit' big isnt it?