HDD enclosure with ethernet

[Dfresh]

Just wondering if anyone has had any experiences with an external HDD enclosure with ethernet to create a NAS solution they can share. I've been looking around and came across this little enclosure that looks pretty nifty, but there's not a manufacturer name attached to it. Thinking about trying it out to use as a NAS solution to store media to stream to various devices across the house. All opinions are welcome.

 

[wra18th]

I've never seen that enclosure before. The price seems reasonable. I'd be concerned about cooling as the fan is very small and in my experience useless for cooling a 7200 RPM hard drive.

 

[Peteman100]

I don't think I'd trust my data in that

 

[a little off]

I don't think I'd trust my data in that

Agreed, it looks like something the Uni-Bomber put together.

 

[Blue Fox]

A cheap NAS like that will be incredibly slow. You will get better results either adding another internal drive or plugging in an external USB one to an existing computer and have it set up to share the drive across the network.

 

[cafcwest]

Semi-related:

Seagate FreeAgent DockStar - http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/network_storage/freeagent_dockstar/

I've got one, but have never opened it. I buy a lot of FreeAgent Go drives for client's for backups, and they were giving these away a few months ago.