I need some advice on BIG external storage units

[Chris G]

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 04:02:10PM -0700, Steven Davies-Morris wrote:
> Tom Rausner wrote:
> > Hi !
> > 
> > I'm going to by myself a BIG (1 TB, maby 2..) external storage. The
> > question is; what to by ? A lot of them are pointed at geting used
> > with Windows and that might be a problem (internal software etc.).
> > Are there some ones amongst you guys, having some experiences to share ?
> > 
> > Tom Rausner
> > tom at tomtech.dk
> 
> About 18 months ago I put 250gb Buffalo external storage units into my 
> customers' stores.  These have a Hitachi drive in them IIRC and are both 
> USB 2 + ethernet connectable.  I imagine they have a 1 TB model, or 
> bigger, by now. Regardless of the mfg, I'd go with one that has an 
> ethernet 192.168.x.x addressable device 'cos then it won't matter what 
> O/S you're hooked up to.
> 
Even that can cause problems, my Freecom drive insists on being a DHCP
server by default!

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Chris Green