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Oct 27, 2006, 07:45 PM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
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Router with USB 2.0 NAS (Network Atached Storage)?
Hi is there any such thing as a router with a USB 2.0 port that will allow me to attach an external USB 2.0 hard drive to it?
What are my options if I want something like this? |
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Oct 28, 2006, 03:44 AM
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DH Team Leader
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must say that if one exists it's not cheap...
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Oct 28, 2006, 03:58 AM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
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Well there is a Netgear WGT634U - which I own. But it's a bit slow - and no longer in production - and the wireless on it is pretty useless (I had to disable the onboard wireless and use it with my own US Robotics wireless bridge).
There is also a US Robotics router - but again - as you said, that definitely isn't cheap (about $300) - and that isn't wireless at all. I am really just looking for something more reliable - and preferably faster. Interestingly, you can replace the firmware on the WGT634U with a custom compiled openwrt firmware - although I'm kind of scratching my head as to what the advantage of doing so would be? It almost seems like it has been done simply because it can be - but I would be interested to know what the potential benefits are? I am sure however I heard about a bunch of other consumer level routers with USB ports to allow for the attachment of external mass storage/usb drives and memory sticks earlier in the year. Indeed for whatever reason, I imagined that they were really pretty common - but apart from the WGT634U and some Belkin product (which got awful reviews) and the horribly expensive USR one - I haven't been able to uncover anything else. I mean was I wrong - or are these things just not as common as I thought? Last edited by raid517; Oct 28, 2006 at 04:04 AM. |
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Oct 28, 2006, 09:29 AM
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Allergic to WiFi
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Wyoming, MI, USA
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You've noticed yourself that the solutions that have been put to market have been expensive and really haven't worked very well. I would imagine that being able to get something like that to market and making is economically workable would be difficult to say the least.
If you really want a router that can act as network storage then it may be time to invest in a cheap PC with Linux running on it and use it as a file server as well. |
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Nov 1, 2006, 09:55 PM
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Noise? What noise?
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There was an article on Toms Hardware about something similar methinks, something about a router that did BitTorrent sans a PC
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