Eagle Tech enclosures vs. Linksys

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I was wanting to get an external hard drive to be able to access it from any of my networked computers as well as access it through the internet.
My original idea was to get a MyBook and use a Linksys Storage Link to connect it to my router. The Storage Link is here:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124036

But after a bit of searching, I found these Eagle Tech enclosures, and two of them offer ethernet support:
http://www.eagle-techusa.com/External_NAS.asp

Which route would be better to go, use the Linksys Storage Link, or use one of the Eagles? Also, which would be easier to access through the internets?
 
Oh, and one other thing, the whole reason I want to do this is so I can put all my music and movies on the external drive and access it with my desktop and laptop and listen to music and whatnot via streaming, I don't want to actually have to put it on to my laptop to listen to it on my laptop with Winamp. I'm not sure if you can do that with FTP, soooo, can you?
 
actually, i have a dlink dgl gaming router. it has wireless and 4 gigabit ports.

what i do, is have 9 harddrives in my server (3400 gigabytes).

its connected via ethernet to my router. the laptop i have i use wirelessly to the router. both are on the same domain setup via my server (desktop)


i can share folders on both machines and stream videos and music off of both, back and forth, to each other. its much faster to connect the laptop to the ethernet on the router instead of through wireless, but as for streaming, the wireless works fine. i can stream 700mb divx video files with no problems wirelessly. hope this helps :)
 
you don't need an enclousure that has ethernet unless you absolutely don't want the info connected to your desktop.

Just plug in a USB hard drive to your desktop, and share it out. This will allow you to either map the share as a network drive on your laptop, or navigate to the share via UNC.. IE "\\computername\share"

Then just enjoy your files.

Ethernet hard drives are unnecessary for your application.
 
It seems like you are looking more for a NAS solution than an external enclosure. My knowledge has been lacking as of late. Unhappy_mage and drizzt81 know this stuff a whole lot better than I do.
 
protias said:
It seems like you are looking more for a NAS solution than an external enclosure. My knowledge has been lacking as of late. Unhappy_mage and drizzt81 know this stuff a whole lot better than I do.
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isn't a desktop computer with shared drives/folders basically like an overblown nas, or like a nas on steroids?
 
matrix563 said:
isn't a desktop computer with shared drives/folders basically like an overblown nas, or like a nas on steroids?
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Well yes, but from what I understand, he doesn't want it necessarily connected to a computer, but rather then network only. Of course, that is how I am reading it.
 
yup, I don't want it connected to my desktop, cause my desktop would need to be powered on to access the drive, so, I want to connect it directly to my router so I can access it from either or from the internet if I am not home and I need something.
 
The Eagle Tech enclosures only use FTP over the net, so I wouldn't be able to stream over the internet, is the Linksys Storage Link the same way?
 
The linksys will let you map the folders. I used one years ago, its still sitting in my closet actually, and seem to remember it not being overly fast.

Physically though it was pretty stable and just something you could turn on and leave in a corner somewhere.
 
do you have to mount the drive to a specific computer, or can you give it a drive letter and hook it up to a router? Also, you know if the Eagle Tech ones work the same way? I would really like to be able to listen to music off of the drive.
 
The linksys works like a standard windows fileserver. You can mount it wherever you want. You can listen to your music over it. It just plugs into the router, grabs an ip address, and can be mounted on any computer.

No idea about the eagle tech, sounds like it is only FTP.
 
I talked to Eagle Tech yesterday and they said that I could listen to music off of it just fine, and the website lists it as TCP/IP compatible... so the linksys will be my back up plan, I might have to buy your old one if this doesn't work out like I plan :p
 
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