My girlfriend has an external USB/Firewire 300 gig hard drive for her Mac Powerbook G4. She uses it primarily to store all of her iTunes stuff - music, movies, etc. We just finally got her wireless (thank god), and she wants to finish freeing herself from her desk by adding the hard drive to the network. Now if this were a PC thing, it would be simple, but I'm not sure how it works with the Mac OS X.
What we need:
Some sort of adapter to convert the Hard Drive to a network drive. I've seen them for PCs.
We need to be able to use it like a normal drive - i.e. write files directly to it while downloading (having to save the files to her machine, then save them to the drive would just be time consuming, and almost negate the purpose of this endeavor).
It would be swell if PC's could read/write to it as well since she will eventually be getting herself a nice desktop, but if not that's fine.
Any advice? Links to items that would work for us?
Edit for clarification:
She presently sits at her desk, downloads music from iTunes directly to the USB hard drive. She wants to lie in bed, and download music directly from iTunes to the network drive.
What we need:
Some sort of adapter to convert the Hard Drive to a network drive. I've seen them for PCs.
We need to be able to use it like a normal drive - i.e. write files directly to it while downloading (having to save the files to her machine, then save them to the drive would just be time consuming, and almost negate the purpose of this endeavor).
It would be swell if PC's could read/write to it as well since she will eventually be getting herself a nice desktop, but if not that's fine.
Any advice? Links to items that would work for us?
Edit for clarification:
She presently sits at her desk, downloads music from iTunes directly to the USB hard drive. She wants to lie in bed, and download music directly from iTunes to the network drive.
