Hi guys and girls,
I'm after some external storage for my network at home for 2 reasons:
1) to backup my fileserver
2) to transport around when I travel back to my parents (as I only have limited storage on my laptop).
I've been looking at the Icy Box caddies, with an idea to add a 160gb drive and attach it via USB to the fileserver. The drawback is that its an old machine that only supports USB 1.1, so if I share the disk it will be painfully slow across the network
It would however mean I can take it with my when I travel home, and the laptop obviously supports both USB 2.0 and 1394 (Firewire).
Would it therefore be worth going for a cheap NAS enclosure (like THIS ), which I can pop on either the network here or direct into the laptop if necessary?
I'm only looking to spend a max of £100 including disk (which only needs to be 160gb).
Thanks
I'm after some external storage for my network at home for 2 reasons:
1) to backup my fileserver
2) to transport around when I travel back to my parents (as I only have limited storage on my laptop).
I've been looking at the Icy Box caddies, with an idea to add a 160gb drive and attach it via USB to the fileserver. The drawback is that its an old machine that only supports USB 1.1, so if I share the disk it will be painfully slow across the network
It would however mean I can take it with my when I travel home, and the laptop obviously supports both USB 2.0 and 1394 (Firewire).Would it therefore be worth going for a cheap NAS enclosure (like THIS ), which I can pop on either the network here or direct into the laptop if necessary?
I'm only looking to spend a max of £100 including disk (which only needs to be 160gb).
Thanks