Hi all,
I'm getting rather fed up for my old man asking me to sort out his back ups which he has on loads of cheap 1-4Gb memory sticks all USB 2.0 of course so taking the time to plug one in, figure out if its the right one or not is getting tiresome.
He has a Asus DSL-N55U Router with BT broadband modem plugged into one of the LAN ports so the Asus router is basically just the switch/wireless access point now but it does have 2x USB 2.0 ports on the back.
What options I have?
If say I bought a 500Gb 2.5" hard drive, small enclosure and popped that in the of one of the USB ports, would that work well enough for backup and stuff. He liked the idea of being able to access pictures from the AiCloud video that comes on the router so he can show people pics from family events without having them all on his phone.
Or... would one of those NAS units be better? I honestly don't know much about them and not sure how you actually set them up but I think they're likea mini PC with lots of storage. Would this be safer/smarter?
Help please
I'm getting rather fed up for my old man asking me to sort out his back ups which he has on loads of cheap 1-4Gb memory sticks all USB 2.0 of course so taking the time to plug one in, figure out if its the right one or not is getting tiresome.
He has a Asus DSL-N55U Router with BT broadband modem plugged into one of the LAN ports so the Asus router is basically just the switch/wireless access point now but it does have 2x USB 2.0 ports on the back.
What options I have?
If say I bought a 500Gb 2.5" hard drive, small enclosure and popped that in the of one of the USB ports, would that work well enough for backup and stuff. He liked the idea of being able to access pictures from the AiCloud video that comes on the router so he can show people pics from family events without having them all on his phone.
Or... would one of those NAS units be better? I honestly don't know much about them and not sure how you actually set them up but I think they're likea mini PC with lots of storage. Would this be safer/smarter?
Help please
