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
External Storage
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
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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...
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Why does it need esata? can't your main pc connect to it via the lan also? Or via usb?
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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 :?
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E Sata is only for external drives that need data moved quickly. Also, Gigabit ethernet is 1000mbs so that is also pretty quick.
I think this is what your looking for:
http://www.synology.com/enu/products/DS107e/index.php
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[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/revie...on-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...
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Humphrey Lyttelton 1921 - 2008
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.
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ahhh, well....
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The Buffalo Quattro (http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Compo...roductId=28403) has eSata but no LAN port
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[quote:3a5e96719c=\"The Architect\"]The Buffalo Quattro (http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Compo...roductId=28403) has eSata but no LAN port[/quote:3a5e96719c]
Well - http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Gadge...roductId=25946 doesn't have LAN either...
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Humphrey Lyttelton 1921 - 2008
does a cheiftan tank have any usb ports and a network port?
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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
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