[ale] NAS in Linux/windows network

[mdhirsch at gmail.com (Michael Hirsch)]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 17:49:51 -0500, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Due to impending disk failure on the wife's laptop, I'm considering
> some form of external HD, so that she can keep her important files
> somewhere that can be accessed from more than just one machine.
> Anyone have pointers to NAS or such? - I've got USB external drives as
> a possibility, but they are not  accessible from 2+ machines at once,
> and so I'm interested in some form of network drive

You can get little ethernet devices that will share a USB drive for
you.  I think Linksys has one, and I saw one at Fry's last week.  That
is the option I'm pursuing.  You get the advantage of a network drive,
with the advantage of USB drive.  Win-win!  And, of course, for the
USB drive I'll probably just use a USB enclosure for an internal
drive.  Yowzah.  Let's hear it for modularity and orthogonality!  Rah
rah rah!

Michael