Network Storage

westie666

Hope some one can give a few suggestions here

Looking for a 200-300 GB external HDD that is wireless capabilities (obviously apart from config) and can also do a 'one touch backup' of all systems on secure network??

Might be a lot to ask......but heres to hoping

MercilessKiller

Asking a lot I'm afraid. Why not buy a dummy pc..give that a wireless card and stick a 300GB HDD in.. then install software to do it and leave the pc on 24 hours a day

You can get pc's dirt cheap.. then u just stick the hard drive in

fguk

As ever with IT, everything is possible, depending on budget!

What you need is a

Netgear SC101 NAS Device, including Smartsync Pro for backup
1 or 2 suitable drives to go inside the SC101 Device.
A Netgear "game adaptor" which will allow the SC101 to be wireless.

Now without reading through manuals and probably actually trying it, its hard to say exactly how "one touch" the backup will be, but as a storage device the SC101 is a winner.

mr_fishbulb

Here are some NAS boxes at ebuyer

Cobi

fguk wrote:

Netgear SC101 NAS Device, including Smartsync Pro for backup

I was looking at this device - and it's cheap. But windows only. If you're interested in ever doing RAID1 on the box each drive needs a separate IP address because all the processing is done by the host and is accomplished by (I guess) two writes.

If you're windows only - it's a good buy.

Currently toying with this that you can buy from Scan

http://www.thecus.com/products_over.php?cid=1&pid=1