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Buy a couple of these:
http://www.ximeta.com/web/products/ndenclosure1_en.php
and a couple 500gb drives.

I've had good luck with the two Ximeta NAS devices I've bought in the last couple of years. They have a proprietary architecture that allows you to put a standard low cost, high capacity drive onto your home network for file sharing via either Cat5 or USB (through a PC). The network connection provides superior performance. I've used these drives in Windows & Linux environments succesfully. I believe you can pick up the external enclosure (that only needs a drive; already contains power supply and interface hardware) at Radio Shack for ~$60 and then put whatever compatible drive you want in it. Read more at: http://ximeta.com/

Well, they're really on top of that Linux support. Just look at their graphic on the NetDisk page; clearly their Linux support is is Red Hot!

http://www.ximeta.com/images/ndo_diagram.gif

Nice...

What about that new OS: Red Hot Linux ?

Darn, I would have had first post, but the man said it was too soon since my last post. f m

NDAS is a good solution. Ximeta makes drives with USB 2.0 + Ethernet, (choose one) pretty cheap compared to plain USB/FireWire drives. Plug into your work PC with USB, take it home and use it to fileserve on your enet.

Clicky

Not exactly what you have in mind, but it's the only USB/Ethernet combo hard drive I've seen (yet).

You can even buy it at your local BestBuy (assuming they haven't pissed you off too much recently).

I have a Ximeta 250GB Netdisk and it works great for me. Sure it is not NFS and requires its own drivers- but it works for me.

I understand the utility of a networked hard drive (and plan to go that direction for my next storage expansion). I'm only questioning the cost/benefit ratio of going wireless.

In short, unless there is a really good reason to want the wireless aspect, this enclosure is a monstrous waste of cash.

In short, unless there is a really good reason to want the wireless aspect, this enclosure is a monstrous waste of cash.

This is not a plug; I only read the product's box. But it may answer whether the $400 Mirra is going to be the "next best thing".

Linux, BeOS, an Entertainment Center PC, etc. aren't exactly mainstream, ya know?

This product is for the uncles, parents and other people out there who had you install Ethernet for. Yes, it's spendy but it is still something to consider (or reverse engineer) because you can do the whole backup thing via "set it and forget it" applications (for Windows 2000/XP).

For those of us who just need (expandable) network storage, I'm buying one of these bad boys. It's cheaper, expandable and can be plugged into my server closet.

For those of you who have this thing about off-site storage, let me know if your ISP minds you using GBs of data on a regular basis and if it's worth the time to push that much data to an FTP site (like this). You might as well use RFC1149 if broadband isn't available to you!

In summary, buy an external HDD and a fire-proof safe. Backup your data regularly. And don't accept candy from strangers.

this looks like it.

"Ximeta Netdisk Portable 160GB. NetDisk is a HDD that is connected directly to the network through the Ethernet interface."

TigerDirect.com sells them. I think I want one!

http://www.ximeta.com/netdisk_portable.html

You can also rig up some RAID thing with 'em.