NAS enclosures for external hard disc drives...?

Question

I wanted to find a way to share my external hard drive via my wireless router, and it seems that the best way to go is to buy a network-atteched-storage enclosure. Have any of you done this? How or where do you access the HDD in Windows? (I assume it will no longer appear in "my computer" next to C: drive)

Answer 1

I have a 1TB NAS, I have it setup on the network connected to my wireless router VIA cable. Give your NAS a name and setup the security to allow you pc to access it. Then you create a network drive that connects to the NAS based on the Network name that you gave it.



Hope that helps. The NAS that I have is a buffalo

Answer 2

I advocate you fail to remember about looking to do away with hard drives from an external difficult power enclosure, unlikely to work, and may just well smash them / injury the guarantee. Purchase giant external tough force, copy contents of historical drives to new drive, use secure wipe utility (eg. DBAN - google this) then sell the ancient drives.

Answer 3

I have a Western Digital Mybookworld. In the UK they are £99. on Amazon. And around £125 in store.



It is simple to set up.



You use windows share names (it runs SAMBA on its linux).

You connect to \\mybookworld\mydrive as a share and click on "reconnect at logon".

You can also just browse your network and you will see it as a server.

It also has USB connections so you can attach an old drive (FAT32 formatted) and it will also b visible/useable.

Answer 4

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