NAS device.... NTFS drives possible? 'tritton' brand.

[abc]

i'm not interested in those kits that have built in harddrives.

I like the idea of allocating my own harddrive.


this dlink i think only allows fat 32 drives placed first in a usb enclosure, then attached to the dlink...
http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0&pid=352


this looks not very sleek, but u put in a drive and connect this to your network via cat5.
http://www.trittontechnologies.com/products/TRINSS001.htm

problem is you need to buy 1 for each harddrive you want to put on your network I guess.

anyone have this tritton?

 

[Arcanedeath]

the Tritton enclosure looks pretty slick and it's not that expensive. (only $114 @ NewEgg) I would give that a shot if you only need to setup 1 hard drive thats independant of your PCs, if you need more space than that you can always just add drives to a PC and setup network shares or create a file server

 

[RalfHutter]

I've been using the Tritton enclosure (with a Seagate 7200.7 HDD) for months now. It's worked great from the instant I first turned it on. It was very easy to configure and integrated itself seamlessly into my network. I use it (along with SyncBack) for backing up my systems each week and have the preferences set to turn it off after 30 minutes of inactivity in order to save additional wear and tear on the drive.

 

[abc]

I think it's a tad cheaper at buy.com, and there's a coupon or so these days to knock a few bucks off.

say Ralf, is it a cheap bulky looking thing though? their website those pics

to me, make it so. it could have been made a lot more sleek.


also, triple digits for a enclosure seems like a premium, even if it has the microchips to handle TCPIP.

Can you format your drive to NTFS?

 

[RalfHutter]

Originally posted by: abc
I think it's a tad cheaper at buy.com, and there's a coupon or so these days to knock a few bucks off.

say Ralf, is it a cheap bulky looking thing though? their website those pics

to me, make it so. it could have been made a lot more sleek.

It's not the sleekest looking piece of hardware I've ever owned, but for my application (hidden away behind a large bookshelf) it doesn't matter as no one will ever see it.

Originally posted by: abc
also, triple digits for a enclosure seems like a premium, even if it has the microchips to handle TCPIP.

Yes, perhaps, but you're getting something that works great, right out of the box and needs no third-part software to run it.

Originally posted by: abc
Can you format your drive to NTFS?

I'm not sure, but I don't think so. I think it uses some *nix file system.

 

[abc]

i was able to find and read the tritton pdf manual for this thing online at their site... it uses fat32 when formatting drives... i dont know.. just because it can't do NTFS isn't a big deal in the these days XP world, right?