External Storage

[Shawz]

Hi,

I am looking to find some external storage which can connect via esata to my main pc but my other two pc's can connect over the network to it as a NAS.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Any help or advice would be much appreciated :)

[Sl4x0r]

Not sure matey - I reckon it's a possibility but I can't find any units which have eSATA and LAN - eSATA and USB/Firewire - USB/Firewire and eSATA - but not all three...

[mac124]

Why does it need esata? can't your main pc connect to it via the lan also? Or via usb?

[Shawz]

It can but I just thought as my main PC has esata connections it would make sense to use them so I could get some faster throughput

Here are the figures I have found for USB 2, 1394 and Esata 1

USB 2 - 480Mbps
1394 - 400 Mbps
ESATA 1 - 1500 Mbps

I guess ESATA 2 would be 3000 Mbps

so these look faster than 100Mbs with my network connection

If I am missing something or being a bit stupid please let me know....I am still learning about all this :?

[Lynx]

E Sata is only for external drives that need data moved quickly. Also, Gigabit ethernet is 1000mbs so that is also pretty quick.

[CMDR Furries]

I think this is what your looking for:

http://www.synology.com/enu/products/DS107e/index.php

[Sl4x0r]

[quote:6268e11b9d=\"CMDR Furries\"]I think this is what your looking for:

http://www.synology.com/enu/products/DS107e/index.php[/quote:6268e11b9d]

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/shopper/reviews/120688/synology-disk-station-ds107e.html

Review says it's poor and the eSATA port is to connect another hard disk to - not to connect it to a PC... I think...

[bouncyb]

it talks about expanding storage via esata so it does look like an expansion port as apposed to a connection to a pc and yep the review isnt glowing.

[CMDR Furries]

ahhh, well....

[The Architect]

The Buffalo Quattro (http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Hard+Drives/External/Buffalo+DriveStation+Quattro+2.0TB+?productId=2840 3) has eSata but no LAN port

[Sl4x0r]

[quote:3a5e96719c=\"The Architect\"]The Buffalo Quattro (http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Hard+Drives/External/Buffalo+DriveStation+Quattro+2.0TB+?productId=2840 3) has eSata but no LAN port[/quote:3a5e96719c]

Well - http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Gadgets/Girls+Gifts/La+Cafetiere+Pink+Electric+Kettle?productId=25946 doesn't have LAN either...

[bouncyb]

does a cheiftan tank have any usb ports and a network port?

[Shawz]

thanks for your suggestions.....

Perhaps I should just wait for USB 3.0.......

then again perhaps not.

I thought when I first saw this I could connect all my pc's via esata to it but sadly not.

http://www.icydock.com/product/mb561s-4s.html

All I want to be able to do is make use of Esata on my pc and then connect my other pc's to it either via GB lan or Esata