One Drive, Two Systems?

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Limp Gawd
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So is it possible to have one drive with all my media accesible to two different system. e.g a pico ITX system and a gaming rig sharing 1 drive with out having to hotswap it. So that i can use the pico ITX just to download large files overnight or w/e and have it go to the drive which is normally used by the gaming rig.
 
network file sharing? no, the desktop would be the host.
um. You could host the HDD on the ITX system. But youd want to transfer to the gaming rig when using the file, depending on what it is.

What are you trying to do? torrent box? Youd want the drive(s) locally.
 
are you talking about having your one pc be able to see files on your other pc?

yes.

Network sharing is very easy. google it. very simple to setup across two xp machines.
 
+1 just get a crap $20 4 port switch and throw the centrally accessed drive in the new pico build. it's gonna just be shared storage (you can't boot from it or anything), but you should just be able to use simple file sharing (everyone has full control) to accomplish this without much headache at all.
 
I think what the guy means is that the two machines aren't on at the same time; the main machine uses the HDD during normal use and then at night the smaller system (presumably in the same case or nearby) uses the same drive whilst the main one is off?

I'm not sure there's really any way to do this - just get a cheap/small second drive for the smaller system and transfer any files at a time when both systems are on.
 
Concentric said:
I think what the guy means is that the two machines aren't on at the same time; the main machine uses the HDD during normal use and then at night the smaller system (presumably in the same case or nearby) uses the same drive whilst the main one is off?

I'm not sure there's really any way to do this - just get a cheap/small second drive for the smaller system and transfer any files at a time when both systems are on.
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yeh thats what i was trying to do, seems like it would be the easiest to use. But probably not the easist to setup
 
External drive enclosure.
Just swop the cable over between boxen.

Luck ........ :D
 
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