- Mar 22, 2004
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Hope this is the right forum.. sorta network related.
I want to put a hard drive on my home network to act as a backup / file sharing medium.
I bought a 160gb IDE HDD. I'm wondering if I can just buy one of those enclosures like This to make it an external USB drive. Then can I connect it to my router via a usb to ethernet connector (Something like this )?
Is it that simple??
What software would I need? What would I need to do to configure this?
Or am i better off just building up an old pc, stick the 160gb drive in there and connect that to network?
(i just dont want to have a whole pc running /sucking power just for a file server)
Any thoughts? suggestions? experiences?
TIA
Jonathan
I want to put a hard drive on my home network to act as a backup / file sharing medium.
I bought a 160gb IDE HDD. I'm wondering if I can just buy one of those enclosures like This to make it an external USB drive. Then can I connect it to my router via a usb to ethernet connector (Something like this )?
Is it that simple??
What software would I need? What would I need to do to configure this?
Or am i better off just building up an old pc, stick the 160gb drive in there and connect that to network?
(i just dont want to have a whole pc running /sucking power just for a file server)
Any thoughts? suggestions? experiences?
TIA
Jonathan