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Originally posted by Jarrod
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=374
i think it's eveything you wanted

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* djdannyp drools

been wanting one of those ever since i first saw it......ended up getting a 750GB seagate instead (cos there was a fuck-off huge sale on them at maplin)

bit wierd that it doesn't have ethernet when it's one of its main boasts is being a network drive......seems a bit dicky connecting via usb when you consider the relative transfer speeds of usb and ethernet

oh well

so what fta rec. do you have?

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Originally posted by Dr4g0n

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Originally posted by Jarrod
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=374
i think it's eveything you wanted

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This doesn't have RJ45?

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my mistake my mate told me it did, is there one on the wd site that does?

i did say 'i think' cos i didn't check weather it had Ethernet

Yes, it's similar to a server, but the problem is you'll end up with two devices trying to manage the writes. You wont find one that will work because when you have the drive connected via USB, it acts like a local drive with the host machine wanting to do direct writes to it (in this case your reciever). When you are using the NAS it wants to act as the controling host. The enclosure is not setup for that kind of activity.

i found the right one this time, but i'm not sure if it will work the way you want it too

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=501&language=en

and it's bigger that a conventional external hard drive
but

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Performance Specifications   
Serial Transfer Rate
    USB 2.0
    Serial Bus Transfer Rate (USB 2.0)    480 Mbits/s (Max)

Transfer Rates
    Ethernet    10/100/1000 Mb/s capable

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