Network hard drive

[Lunchbox]

I'm looking for a network hard drive... Anybody got any suggestions? The 200GB hard drive I have in my MacBook Pro is getting full...

LBX

[ragboy]

If you like simplicity, take a look at the drobo. Although, I don't think its network, its a usb drive, but you should take a look, its pretty amazing. Also, you can connect any usb drive to an apple airport, and it turns into a net drive.

[Lunchbox]

If you like simplicity, take a look at the drobo. Although, I don't think its network, its a usb drive, but you should take a look, its pretty amazing. Also, you can connect any usb drive to an apple airport, and it turns into a net drive.

Sweet... I have three airport express in my house... Can you do with airport express?

[ragboy]

I don't think so, the express is just for print server.

[ragboy]

Here is what I have, ultra simple.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/hard-driv...ges-312747.php

This allows me to buy internal SATA drives, which are cheap. I back up to one, take to safe deposit box, and pop in another and rotate.

[Lunchbox]

I love this comment:

"BY BIGDANINTX AT 10/19/07 09:30 AM

This has many practical uses!! I have a bunch of old hard drives lying around since I can only put so many into my PC. This could expand my storage capacity tremendously! Just need to be sure I know what's on what drive. LOL

Porn, vol.1; Porn, vol.2; Porn, vol.3... =-P "

[ragboy]

LOL, y, you can put whatever you want on them. You can find a 500GB SATA drive for right around $100 on new egg, thats why I like these things.

[Lunchbox]

Fry's has 500GB WD drives for $99 right now... We have a local store so I'm going to go check it out later today...

[ragboy]

y, newegg has several at 99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...=400GB+-+750GB

The hitachi with 16mb cache is a great deal.

[Matt Garcia]

I'm amazed at how cheap 500gb HDs are now. Pretty soon Tera byte HDs will be cheaper than that.

[ragboy]

I know. My home media/project server is a RAID 5 array of 8 250g drives, my plan was to move up to 8 500gb drives when they came below 100. Thats going to give me over 3 TB. cool.

[da.bell]

Ah!!!!!!!! The days that 1 MB = $2+..... It seems like it was yesterday.

[dogbert]

I'm amazed at how cheap 500gb HDs are now. Pretty soon Tera byte HDs will be cheaper than that.

Especially SATA drives. $300 buys you a TB.

[zad0030]

You can get some good external harddrives for <200. Im actually looking into this for my computer. 1, To free up space on the harddrive and 2, to back up all my pictures and other valuables.

I was just checking out the Best Buy website and reading some of the reviews on the externals and from what I have read the Seagate harddrives are pretty user friendly and not too expensive.

[spharis]

Mirra Servers are nice if you have the extra money to spend. It is priced for more "mission critical" type setups though. I have purchased these for clients in the tax industry that were moving from ZIP media as storage using DOS applications.