blackaeronaut Wrote:But if back-ups are what you're after, then an external hard drive is the only way to go, honestly. If you go that route, I recommend using a networked drive (gone blank on what they're called) ...Networked-Attached Storage, or NAS for short. My home NAS is an enclosure from Linksys/Cicso with a pair of 1TB drives installed - if I was building it today, I'd go for larger drives, even though I'm, not even halfway to filling the drives I have yet.
(I have another 1TB USB drive to back up the NAS.)
JFerio Wrote:I actually saw a networkable hub at the thrift store that appeared to be intended to make most USB drives out there into a networked drive. I didn't buy it, in part because it didn't seem to have it's power brick, but also because I currently only have two computers my external hard drive gets used on.Yeah, I'd be suspicious of thrift-shop electronics, too.
As for only having two computers that use the drive, do you ever have any visitors who bring laptops? If you do, there's more than two potential computers using the drive. Also, hooking the drive up to the LAN means both computers can use it at the same time.
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