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Sharing data on an external drive

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NRaygun

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What does everyone think about adding a USB drive to a home server and sharing files off of it?

In general, is this a bad idea or is it OK for a small home server. I would imagine you wouldnt want to do this for a corp network(someone could just walk off with the data), but for home it might be OK. I'm thinking that USB 2.0 would be fast enough.

What do you think?
 
Theoretically it should work BUT USB Drives do take MORE CPU cyles to run than IDE Drive.

What type of sharing are we doing?
 
The maximum transfer rate for USB 2 HDD is
480 Mbps = 58.5 MB/s

Internet HDD offer much higher performace than USB. External HDD works best as portable storage but not for b/w intensive task
 
So aside from the speed(which I would expect), any other reason for not doing this?

This will just be very simple sharing for the home - digital pix, music, etc.
 
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