External HD

Kukelikki · November 12th, 2007, 12:11 AM

Ok, i have a good half a dozen external HD's. some are proper Lacie's, others are normal desktop HD's with a very improvised IDE-USB adapter attached. I'm looking to unify all the data on one single disk.
What i'm looking for is a raid1 system (having had bad experiances with faulty disks) with a capacity of 2TB (1 TB for actual usage).
I also want to access the data from my WLAN, so the HD would have to have an Ethernet port. Now the question: I have a gigabit ethernet switch. can i attach the WLAN router, the HD and the ADSL modem to the switch, and have a functioning Wlan network, over which i can access the HD to play movies in the living room?
It's a fairly new Netgear RangeMax router, but would the speed (at 'low' signal strength) be enough to watch a HD movie flawlessly?
Also: These HD's (according to manufacturers) also work as an FTP or HTTP sever. So would it somehow be possible to remotely (i.e. from living room, work or holidays) turn them on and off?

I've been looking at 'LaCie 2big Network' disks. they seem to be exactly what i'm looking for (albeit, quite expensive). What do you guys think?

November 12th, 2007, 12:11 AM	#1
Kukelikki Joined: Jan 25th, 2007 Last Online: Yesterday Posts: 71 Rep Power: 8	External HD Ok, i have a good half a dozen external HD's. some are proper Lacie's, others are normal desktop HD's with a very improvised IDE-USB adapter attached. I'm looking to unify all the data on one single disk. What i'm looking for is a raid1 system (having had bad experiances with faulty disks) with a capacity of 2TB (1 TB for actual usage). I also want to access the data from my WLAN, so the HD would have to have an Ethernet port. Now the question: I have a gigabit ethernet switch. can i attach the WLAN router, the HD and the ADSL modem to the switch, and have a functioning Wlan network, over which i can access the HD to play movies in the living room? It's a fairly new Netgear RangeMax router, but would the speed (at 'low' signal strength) be enough to watch a HD movie flawlessly? Also: These HD's (according to manufacturers) also work as an FTP or HTTP sever. So would it somehow be possible to remotely (i.e. from living room, work or holidays) turn them on and off? I've been looking at 'LaCie 2big Network' disks. they seem to be exactly what i'm looking for (albeit, quite expensive). What do you guys think?

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