Networked Hard Drive

[clarabear]

I have a question for you guys. I am currently having some EHD issues and I thought of a solution...but I'd like some feedback from anyone else.

I have a PC laptop and a desktop Mac...I hate having to move my EHD back and forth so I was looking for a networked EHD and found something but I'm wondering if any of you have had this concern and what your answer to that was.


Here is a product I found: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/network_storage/home-network-storage/


Thoughts??

 

[dlhoffer]

Wow, that looks cool Clara! I'll be interested to hear opinions on this too op2:

 

[clarabear]

Also looking at this one: http://www.google.com/products/cata...=X&ei=tPBQT6_gEqqo0AHTwvTkDQ&ved=0CK8BEPMCMAI

 

[dwsewbiz]

We use a networked drive...not exactly either one of these products, but seems similar to the 2nd.

We use it wirelessly, and it can be slow, especially for accessing tons of photos

One of the problems we have not been able to solve, but it is hopefully product specific...there is sometimes trouble rendering thumbnails, which is a pain when you are trying to select photos!

But it does beat moving an EHD around.

 

[taxed4ever]

This sounds like a fabulous solution Clara!! I have a Seagate EHD and I absolutely love it, never had an ounce of trouble with it.

 

[clarabear]

I'm headed to BB to get their take on these products.

Diane - I had a feeling it would be slower...I think I am okay with that. Sure beats moving the EHD around or losing the info altogether.

 

[janedee]

We have a home network set up but don't have any additional equipment. It was just set up through Windows 7 - home group and network. I didn't set it up myself but its great to transfer files back and forth between our two desktops, laptop and netbook.

 

[clarabear]

So...I got a 2T Seagate Go Flex. It was fairly easy to set up...easier on the PC than the Mac. It seems pretty fast so far. I haven't tried to use anything yet so we'll see how it goes when I do.

 

[faerywings]

Awesome Clara! All of our computers and printers are network, but aside from calling my adorable IT Guy (honeyyyyyyy, help!!!) I know nothing about it.

Good luck!

 

[LSlycord]

None of ours are networked...but I think we should do that here as well! Maybe this spring!

 

[charlize]

mine is seagate as well ... but it's not wireless and so far I have no problem with it ... but since I'm not using Mac, I don't know if there's any issue about it.
But when I bought it ... a friend told me that the setting is different and once it's on Mac if you want to move that to PC - you need to re-format it
But again ... I am not an IT savvy LOL ...

 

[clarabear]

Charlize...if you format the EHD on your PC to exFAT it is readable on both platforms. That's what I was doing before I started having issues with the drive itself. I was always switching back and forth between computers.

Linda - this EHD only cost $159 and it was really easy.

 

[LSlycord]

The crazy thing Clara is that I "grew up" through the IT world. Still am there...except now as a leader. Maybe that's why I hate messing with this stuff! I may need to take a look at "really easy" though!