External Hard Drive - Wireless

[aj1977]

I am planning to add an external hard drive(200-500GB with wireless connectivity) to my home wireless network...Any suggestions..?

Googling does'nt give any useful options...there is something from ASUS but it offfers a meagre 40GB storage limit....

[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

[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

[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]

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

[aj1977]

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?

[TheFaQQer]

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

Yes.

[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]

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.

[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.