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Unread 3 Oct 2005, 23:34   #1
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External DVD Writers

Anyone got one?
I'm looking for a recommendation.
I was hoping I'd get one for around 70 of your british pounds.
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Unread 4 Oct 2005, 00:31   #2
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Re: External DVD Writers

Actually, I want an external hard disk as well.
Having all my personal data on an external drive, which is backed up on DVD, leaving the PC/laptop to just deal with the OS would be lovely. lovely.
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Re: External DVD Writers

Lacie do a big disk.

It's actually called a big disk.

I believe they do a 1Tb model for a few hundred quid.

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Re: External DVD Writers

http://www.dabs.com/uk/productView.h...SDK&familyid=0

Cheers, that looks good.
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Re: External DVD Writers

Actually skiddy, do you know of any external hdds that have multiple usb interfaces? I want to connect it to multiple computers at the same time.
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Re: External DVD Writers

Get a network storage device in that case.
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Re: External DVD Writers

Couldn't I just use a usb hub/switch?
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Re: External DVD Writers

no, usb is a serial interface and is only designed for direct 1 to 1 connections. a usb hub only extends the number of available ports on your computer.

as for drives with multiple interfaces, I've not seen any other than ones that might have dual usb & firewire.

why the heck do you want to do this anyway?
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Re: External DVD Writers

I have two laptops.
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Re: External DVD Writers

You can't link one drive to multiple machines as OS's uses volume locking. Only way you can do it is have a central machine (server) which does the volume locking and then share it over a network; unless you want to drift into the world of SAN and use software on the two machines to overrule the OS and use file locking instead of volume locking.

We've a client who wants to do the same using OSX Server, three xServe's and a 2.5Tb xServe RAID. He needs xSAN to do this as it will allow file locking instead of volume locking. All to do with inodes or something.

Either that or you could run 2000/2003 Advanced Server / Enterprise on each machine and set up clustering for shared disk access. I'm somewhat sure this still needs a SAN system or NAS system.
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Re: External DVD Writers

the network area storage solution nb3 pointed out would be easiest imo. Plug the thing into a network, wired or otherwise and go.
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Re: External DVD Writers

With the network disc would it just be a case of:

The disc sits over there, with the data on, and my laptops just connect to it via network cables?
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Re: External DVD Writers

pretty much, or through wireless if the disk is plugged into a wireless router.
As far as i understand it,it appears like a network share.
although ive never had one so cant be 100% on that
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pretty much, or through wireless if the disk is plugged into a wireless router.
As far as i understand it,it appears like a network share.
although ive never had one so cant be 100% on that
Yeah you're right, you just connect to them over SMB or AFP or whatever protocol suits the system you're running. The decent ones tend to support NFS, SMB and AFP. Low end ones just support SMB while high end ones can be accessed through FTP, web browsers etc.

But yeah, plug it in, find it's IP address (which is usually static otherwise they have a habit of dickappearing!) and then connect with a Start -> Run -> \\x.x.x.x or smb://x.x.x.x or afp://x.x.x.x or ftp://x.x.x.x or... you get the idea.
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Hmm. As I've never played with network shares, I'm wondering how fast, secure and easy to use (as easy as just access a drive partition?) it'd be.
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Re: External DVD Writers

You sound like someone who wants to buy a new tower, but instead you're talking about buying all the components seperately and using external ones!
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