will any external hard drive work with the ASUS RT-N56U router? and what is the advantage of hooking it up to a router? is it constantly backing up as you work in your laptop? what about the data I already have on my western digital?
Thanks for the answers
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The benefit is you get to use it as a NAS - Network Attached Storage. It provides access to your files from any computer and a central location to store music and photos so you don't have duplicates on several different computers. You can also setup your system to backup to that drive daily/weekly/etc so that incase you loose your laptop you don't loose your most important files.
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The down side of these are that they are very slow, when compared to a standalone NAS.
External hard drive
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by marland, Mar 8, 2011.