Newbie question: Easiest way to have a have an external hard drive shared as a storage devie

onlyme123

onlyme123

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Hi there,

I am fairly new to hardware and networking, but fairy computer literate.

I am wanting to set up a simple network that will allow people in my house to save to an external hard drive.

We currently have the following in the house:

- 2 PCs
- 2 Laptops

What I would like to do is have an external hard drive connected that we can save files to and have a few questions:

- What would be the best process in achieving this?
- The hard drive is a USB so would the PC/laptop that its connected to need to be powered on all the time?
- What other hardware/software would I need?

Any advice and suggestions would be great, thanks!
 
Thanks for the reply.

A NAS sounds like the thing I am looking for.

I currently use cloud storage, but wanted to actually implement something myself by "doing".

In a NAS, where would the storage device connect to other than the router, or is that the only option without having one computer powered on all the time?
 
Avalon said:
You can either share it from one of the PC's/laptops that is on, plug it into the router if it supports sharing storage or use something like a NAS, this could even be done with something as simple as a Pi.
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Hi,

This may sound like a stupid question, but can the external hard drive be plugged into something else that has power an supports a USB? I'm wondering If I an simply plug it into a USB plug? I'm guessing this won't work because there is no wifi on the plug.
 
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