View Full Version : NAS USB Dongle or something like it
Does anybody know who sells a USB NAS Dongle so I can plug in a Western Digital formatted to what I believe is FAT32 and use it on my home network without having to format it to EXT2 or some other Linux/Unix file system? As well it needs to support SMB not their own software that wouldn't support xbmc.
As well it would be nice if I could actually buy it as well. ;)
I was looking at things like FreeNAS, but it requires a computer and a NAS box, but then I'd have to buy the box and then a drive when I already have a 500gig drive waiting to serve on the network.
smcnally75
2009-01-23, 01:26
Western Digital NASs do work on XBMC. I know this because I am using two of them myself. I have two 1TB MybookWorld Edition NAS units that have been working perfectly for XBMC.
I have a Western Digital 500 gig drive, but its not networkable and well was trying to get it on the network as cheaply as possible.
keithskaggs
2009-01-23, 02:43
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/
smcnally75
2009-01-23, 13:45
Sorry, I misunderstood you. I don't know about you, but I'd rather spend $99 on a 500GB NAS than $55 on a dongle. Then you could use the drive you have for other things. Here's a link to one for $99 on ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/Western-Digital-My-Book-World-Edition-500-GB-Hard-Drive_W0QQitemZ290289741182QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCC_ Drives_Storage_Internal?hash=item290289741182&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1234|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A13 18|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50
Thanks guys for the links.
@keithskaggs
If I recalled the one that keithskaggs posted you have to format your drive to a Linux file system which of course would render the drive usless if you carried it around
@smcnally75
Thats exactly the same conclusion I came to looking around. It would cost me 50bucks to make something that I already have work, but I could spend double that and get storage.
In the end I'm probably going to end up building a NAS machine and throwing some drives in it or buying a portable drive like the Western Digital World.