I have a macbook with a 160 gb hard drive with only 20 gb remaining (not sure how I used all that space in 6 months!). I want to buy an external terabyte drive but would prefer not to have to directly attach it to my laptop. I would like to access the drive through my wireless network. I don't have another machine in the house. Can someone tell me what my options are? Do I have to get a fancy router? I currently have a pretty simple looking linksys one. I don't see any usb ports etc. Thanks in advanced.
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=586 Check that out. Kinda pricy (Well, based on the fact you can get a regular external drive for 100 bucks for 1TB) I'm sure it'll be lower if you look around elsewhere. There's also similar solutions from other companies, but this is the first thing that came to mind. You can connect it to your router via ethernet cable, and it becomes a network drive.
just doing a little more research... stumbled across this: http://www.buy.com/prod/iomega-1tb-home-media-network-hard-drive/q/loc/101/210573494.html Any thoughts on using something like this? Anyone have any experience to share?
only experience I have with it is the company. I have an Iomega external 500gb hard drive, and have have NO issues with it.
I don't know if it was the first one posted or not, but one of those 1TB setups that Apple sells on their website has a really bad rep for dying out.
i have a beklin wireless router that lets you hook up any usb external drive to it to make it a NAS the only problem i encountered with it was that it seemed to limit the transfer speeds over the wireless network to 10mbit making transfers of large files really slow. there are also NAS enclosures you can purchase and toss in an internal drive not sure what your budget is for your solution
to expand on the external hard drive question. Who has a NAS that works with their PS3 over their network to stream HD movie formats?
looks like it comes down to the router, especially if you are going to stream. Initially, I didn't think about this, but streaming would be ideal. my current router does not support nas and is only "G"compatible. Looks like in order to stream effectively, you need the N" compatible.
for those curious---looks like I will go with a router upgrade: http://store.apple.com/us/product/FB763LL/A?mco=MTA4MjczMDM#overview and then just buy an external harddrive for about 80 bucks. Thanks to those who responded.
This is what I run on my home network: DNS-323 I highly recommend it. It takes two SATA drives which you can run in mirrored RAID for redundancy. The redundancy is huge for me. As an IT pro, I can't tell you how many times I've seen tears over hard drives crashing and people losing their important data. It's going to run you $300-$400 when you're all said and done, but it's worth it. It also runs on embedded linux. For network connectivity I plug it into one of my Wireless Router wired ports. If you like to hack hardware, this thing has tons of little tricks you can work into it.
