Is this too much to ask?

JAMAL

JAMAL

JAMAL

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Hi,

I need an external hardisk 160gb+.

The drive needs to be accesable from my xbox 360 via usb, at the same time it also needs to be connected to my router via ethernet so i can use it as a drive wireless from my laptop. I would like access with both the xbox & lappy at any time without any messing about with the hardisk in any way.

I would aslo like the drive to turn its self off when the 360 is turned off or after no use from the lappy after a time period.


Is there anything out there that would satisfy me?

Thanks for any help at all :)

Cheers

Jonny
 
It's highly unlikely that you'll find a product that can both be a slave to a PC or other device via USB, and at the same time act as a server for sharing files on a LAN. I'd imagine that in such a product there would be sharing/contention problems to solve (e.g. what to do if PC/XBox on USB wants to write block 1234 on the drive and a LAN client writes or deletes the file the block belongs to etc etc etc.) So if such a thing exists, I wouldn't expect it to be either simple or cheap. I certainly don't know of anything like it. That said, if the XBox can access a shared hard drive on the network as a LAN client, via SMB or such, same as other PC clients, then something like the Buffalo Linkstation, *might* work for you. (But, I don't know if the XBox can make use of shared HDD space via a LAN or not, and if so, how.)
 
ByteJuggler said:
It's highly unlikely that you'll find a product that can both be a slave to a PC or other device via USB, and at the same time act as a server for sharing files on a LAN. I'd imagine that in such a product there would be sharing/contention problems to solve (e.g. what to do if PC/XBox on USB wants to write block 1234 on the drive and a LAN client writes or deletes the file the block belongs to etc etc etc.) So if such a thing exists, I wouldn't expect it to be either simple or cheap. I certainly don't know of anything like it. That said, if the XBox can access a shared hard drive on the network as a LAN client, via SMB or such, same as other PC clients, then something like the Buffalo Linkstation, *might* work for you. (But, I don't know if the XBox can make use of shared HDD space via a LAN or not, and if so, how.)
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What your saying makes sense.

To be honest the xbox is going to be using the drive most of the time, i just wanted a lazy way of copying my music, photos & movies onto the hard drive without having to pull a cable from the xbox and plug a cable into lappy to transfer every time. Maybe thats what i'll have to do.


Thank you for help

Regards

Jonny
 
JAMAL said:
What your saying makes sense.

To be honest the xbox is going to be using the drive most of the time, i just wanted a lazy way of copying my music, photos & movies onto the hard drive without having to pull a cable from the xbox and plug a cable into lappy to transfer every time. Maybe thats what i'll have to do.


Thank you for help

Regards

Jonny
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:p That really is lazy!!
 
*WARNING*: This is a guess!

I was looking at the D-Link DNS-323. It has UPnP stream server. Now, the interesting part, is this is what the 360 uses (I think).

EDIT: I think I might be right! In theory, any UPnP file server would do the trick as the 360 uses a common standard! But since UPnP servers are not cheap, £100+ without the disks, I would not like to take the risk myself.
 
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A NAS harddrive might let u connect up both at the same time via usb and ethernet

maybe some 1 here might know if it can be done

only thing is does xbox360 use its own format? ie not a windows fat based format, im not sure as i dont have a xbox360
 
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