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3 Oct 2005, 23:34
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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.
Darn.
Hmm.
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4 Oct 2005, 00:31
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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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4 Oct 2005, 08:40
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wild one
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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.
All your eggs* in one basket...
*are belong to us...
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4 Oct 2005, 11:31
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Re: External DVD Writers
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4 Oct 2005, 13:15
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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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4 Oct 2005, 13:30
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Re: External DVD Writers
Get a network storage device in that case.
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4 Oct 2005, 15:56
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Re: External DVD Writers
Couldn't I just use a usb hub/switch?
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4 Oct 2005, 21:18
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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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5 Oct 2005, 00:27
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Re: External DVD Writers
I have two laptops.
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5 Oct 2005, 15:43
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wild one
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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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5 Oct 2005, 15:51
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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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5 Oct 2005, 15:58
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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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5 Oct 2005, 16:23
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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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5 Oct 2005, 16:42
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wild one
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Re: External DVD Writers
Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil^
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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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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5 Oct 2005, 20:40
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Re: External DVD Writers
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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5 Oct 2005, 21:06
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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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