[Gllug] External USB HD recommendations

[Chris Bell]

On Wed 03 Dec, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 09:10 +0000, John Hearns wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 2008/12/3 Bob Giles <thecorfiot at gmx.co.uk>
> >         On a personal note, I am looking to buy the Freecom 1 Tb
> >         external drive
> >         that also supports an ethernet connection and is therefore can
> >         be
> >         accessible directly from any machine ... anywhere. 
> >  
> > That's interesting. Do you happen to know how they work - do they have
> > an embedded processor which acts as a NAS server or something? 
> 
> I have a "homebrew" NAS server here which consists of a 500 Gb Seagate
> drive with a Scenix processor handling TCP/IP - works fine on my home
> network, but is probably a little too experimental to make available
> just yet.  Expect it to be an article in one of the electronics comics
> next year (probably in Elektor).
> 
> C.
> 

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