looking for a media/backup storage for things and for when things can go tits up on your internal drives.

What are your opinions on such things?

Prefer using a relatively simple external USB drive TBH, 250MB up to whatever you can buy.

Just fitted a 250MB job Sam sold me in a USB enclosure. Works a treat for storing MP3s, photographs and compessed backups

Quote from: SeriousPrefer using a relatively simple external USB drive TBH, 250MB up to whatever you can buy.

Just fitted a 250MB job Sam sold me in a USB enclosure. Works a treat for storing MP3s, photographs and compessed backups

Have you slipped into a time-warp there chap?  :mrgreen:

Ive got a USB drive... and its good... but it sucks compaired to the lan drive

Ive got 3 of these... here on ebay

nice if you already have a hard drive

they top out at a bit over 3mb/sec transfers... but have the best config. interface (simple but effective)

I have a maxtor nas drive one too, which I can get 11meg/sec, but there much harder to find and more expensive

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Quote from: SeriousPrefer using a relatively simple external USB drive TBH, 250MB up to whatever you can buy.

Just fitted a 250MB job Sam sold me in a USB enclosure. Works a treat for storing MP3s, photographs and compessed backups

Have you slipped into a time-warp there chap?  :mrgreen:

OK, should be GB

Then again my first HD was only 170MB and cost Ã,£1 per MB!

Were getting 12TB of EMC SAN installed in 10 days - that is going to be some weapon!

Quote from: MarkWere getting 12TB of EMC SAN installed in 10 days - that is going to be some weapon!

where im working atm just priced up something similar.  After picking himself up off the floor the dude pricing it up said he felt that may be a tad excessive, and hes being tight and ordering some regular servers that are retro-fitted with large SCSI drives :\

What Knighty posted interests me, A thing like this does interest me tbh, Whack it in allow lots of pcs to access and have it running away from a pc, External usb stuff is cool but plug in and out etc, I have one and it broke abit :/

What is a good cheap large IDE hardrive that wont break to go in it though?

easy to access, and any old Hd woll do

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I have a maxtor nas drive one too, which I can get 11meg/sec, but there much harder to find and more expensive

they top out at 11-12MB/s because 100mb networks max transfer is about 12MB a sec, once tcp/ip overheads are accounted for that drops it down to the 11MB/s your seeing

100mb / 8 = 12.5MB/s

gigabit would be 1000mb/8 = 125MB/s peak transfer
and lowly 10mb (cant remember last time i saw these, cept on my last router)  would be 1.25MB/s

least you dont have to worry about *1000 instead of 1024 with bit rates like you do sometimes with hard drives    

Ok, I got a network drive box arrive and got an Ide drive in there and all the lights are on, it works fine in USB mode.

Network wise it says to go to

http://Storage or http://Storage-xxx in web browser but this does not access it

The xx scan be the last 3 digits of the mac address but there is no label anywhere inside out saying what the address is.

It says I can do a direct by using the ip 169.254.0.1

Windows does not see it in the network - mind you its an exact set network to function well and not just auto configured.

Any ideas how to access the drive?

pm me your email addy, and Ill email you the programs you use to updarte them etc...

theres one there that does a quick scan then tells you the IP addresses of each network drive

unless you can go into the ip setup via the usb cable and then manually set the ip address ?

plus... leave it running and come back in a coupld of hours... I did that when mine wouldent work (had soemthing i have to go do) came back and it was working !

what about if youre after some sort of resilience though? are there lan enclosures that allow you to put two sata drives in and mirror them?

Matt

^^^

yeah theres a few about... there more expensive tho

...mostly because most of them come with drives installed in them.... its hard to find empty ones that favour geeks like us with half a dozen spair hard drives lying round !

(p.s. dont buy the netgear one... it sucks!)

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=97390&C=Newsletter&U=07P01-1_Computers&T=12280684

Ã,£35