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    Hard Drive / Router combination for backups?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Nathand, Jul 4, 2008.

  1. Nathand

    Nathand Notebook Consultant

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    With three laptops in the house it would be nice to have a networked hard drive so they can do nightly backups wirelessly.

    Does anyone have suggestions as to what router / hard drive combination would work the best? I'm assuming pretty much anything will work fine, but wanted to post just in case someone knows of a good deal.
     
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  2. mattbieg892

    mattbieg892 Notebook Geek

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    I would recommend getting a combo Network/USB2 External Hard drive. I tried out a network drive for backups, the only problem was with our house's high level of traffic (due to torrenting) it could sometimes be a problem to access a drive. You could back it up over the network, but if you did need to perform a recovery you could do it locally via USB2 at 480 Mb/s as opposed to 54 Mb/s on a G network.

    All you would have to do is plug the drive into your router (A G-Router would probably be best) and depending on what HDD it is install the software on all the computers.
     
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    bubbatex Notebook Deity

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    I have been looking into the same thing and if you go to the network forum and research a little, most network HDD's and wireless connections seem to be terrible - really slow - if you can get them to work at all. At least that's the feeling I get overall. I am currently doing all backups manually (3 laptops, 1 desktop) with an external HDD that I just move to each PC.
     
    bubbatex, Jul 5, 2008
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