Interesting Ethernet/USB2.0 Hard Drive

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I'm curious about this thing, the Ximeta Netdisk Portable
Ethernet/USB2.0 hard drive. What's the difference between this (which
is cheap) and network attached storage (which is expensive). Since I
have a Windows NT desktopPC in the office (and hence the USB ports
don't work)this is kinda interesting.Does anyone make an external
drive enclosure similar to this???
 
I'm curious about this thing, the Ximeta Netdisk Portable
Ethernet/USB2.0 hard drive. What's the difference between this
(which is cheap) and network attached storage (which is expensive).
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NAS is much more capability wise.
Since I have a Windows NT desktopPC in the office (and
hence the USB ports don't work)this is kinda interesting.
Does anyone make an external drive enclosure similar to this???
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They're not that common at all.

It would be silly to claim that no one else
does it, but there arent that many if any.
 
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I'm stupid but curious. What does NAS do that this thing doesn't?
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NAS is basically a stripped down PC with disk. You put it on your network
and it shares out the disk, usually with Windows type shares but Unix
versions may also do NFS shares. Some will let you assign permissions to
shares or directories and files using your domain or AD groups. It will
have some basic management tools to do this and to cut the disk up and
assign the shares.

So, it's basically a stripped down server, not JBOD (just a bunch of
disks).
 
I'm stupid but curious. What does NAS do that this thing doesn't?
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Have a look at the ethernet capabilitys of that case.

They're pretty limited.

Much more limited drive wise too, very little choice, just two drives.
 
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