Reccommend me an External Drive

Beast06 · 20 Nov 2006 at 19:05

I am in the need of mass storage in the new house I will be moving into. There will be a main server serving the house and I am considering storage options.

1. Buy 2x 750GB Seagates and stick them in the server - too expensive
2. Buy a NAS enclosure and stick 2x750GB's in them - too expensive
3. Buy 4x Western Digital 500GB Book's USB - Seems perfect

Option 3 seems to be the best + cheapest, but will it be fast enough because USB will be slower than connecting it directly to the network, yes ?

Is there hard drive caddies you can buy and stick a hard drive in, and it has a ethernet port on the back to connect it directly to the network.

Hard drives will be sending large files over the network so will need to be fast.

Reccommend away

Methanoid · 21 Nov 2006 at 13:13

Beast06 said:
I am in the need of mass storage in the new house I will be moving into. There will be a main server serving the house and I am considering storage options.

1. Buy 2x 750GB Seagates and stick them in the server - too expensive
2. Buy a NAS enclosure and stick 2x750GB's in them - too expensive
3. Buy 4x Western Digital 500GB Book's USB - Seems perfect

Option 3 seems to be the best + cheapest, but will it be fast enough because USB will be slower than connecting it directly to the network, yes ?

Is there hard drive caddies you can buy and stick a hard drive in, and it has a ethernet port on the back to connect it directly to the network.

Hard drives will be sending large files over the network so will need to be fast.

Reccommend away

Have a look in the FS forum

Some quality kit going cheap there!!!

Beast06 · 23 Nov 2006 at 17:03

It's not on my thread list :mad:

- Won't allow me access to it! How do I get on ?

mosfet · 23 Nov 2006 at 17:53

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/faq.php?faq=vb_user_maintain#faq_vb_use_cookies

You shouldn't need to worry about speed, any good hard drive will saturate a 100Mbps LAN adaptor, unless you're going for Gigabit Ethernet.

Were you planning on connecting the 4 USB drives to the server and then mounting them as network drives?

I wouldn't recommend this. Cable spaghetti and if the USB controller is crap you might suffer with latency problems, and unless you get some software RAID solution, you won't have any redundancy.

Can you fit 4 drives in the server? Have you considered redundancy (RAID)?

Steves_pc · 25 Jan 2007 at 20:09

Beast06 said:
It's not on my thread list - Won't allow me access to it! How do I get on ?

Need to be here 90days iirc and have at least 250 posts.

Doh! just spotted the linky above