this work? worth it?

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

http://cgi.ebay.com/D-Link-2-Bay-Network-Storage-Hard-Drive_W0QQitemZ320491981751QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCC_Drives_Storage_Internal?hash=item4a9ecf8bb7

was thinking about dropping a pair of 1 tb drives in it and hooking it up to home network.

and while i'm asking how is my new laptop with vista gonna play with others in my xp world/.  or should i go ahead and do windows 7 right away

[cordex]

If you're planning on throwing straightforward RAID 1 mirroring on that for extra data security, then it should be cool.  I've had nothing but trouble with concatenated JBOD arrays.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

shoot  i understood raid  barely  after that i was lost

[sanglant]

i think i found a different way to achieve this. there are routers now with usb ports, so you can hook up a printer. or a external raid enclosure, they seem to work differently depending on who made it, d-link takes software i THINK there are some that don't need any software. good luck which ever way you go.

We then plugged a Western Digital Passport USB hard drive into the router’s second USB port to test its network-attached storage functionality. The router supports NTFS-formatted drives, so it had no problem with this one’s 250GB capacity, but it could not deliver enough juice from one USB port to spin up the drive. A two-headed USB cable solved that problem, but only at the expense of the router’s printer-sharing feature. Although you can access media from an attached hard drive, there is no UPnP media-server support (don’t let the presence of a prominent UPnP button in the user interface fool you. We tested the router using Microsoft’s Internet Connectivity Evaluation Tool and then confirmed this with Asus).

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

so if i got a powered usb hub i could spin up the drive(s) and still keep the port?  i already have a wireless print server

[sanglant]

the raid enclosures are powered. that was just the part or the review on hard drives, the comments have some more information. i haven't tried this, i just saw it would be a way of doing it. hopefully i didn't just confuse you for nothing.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

i was confused before i ever came here.  but i truly enjoy learning from all the folks here who offer so many alternatives. the fact that i can even consider playing with these toys is mindblowing for me