Upgrade a Linksys EFG80

[kevnich2]

I'm wondering if anyone here has successfully upgraded a Linksys EFG80 with a hard drive 200gb or greater? According to linksys, it only supports up to 120gb but there is a new firmware out but it doesn't list any details about if the new firmware allows larger hard drives? Anyone have any ideas for this?

 

[kevnich2]

Anyone?

 

[InlineFive]

To be safe I would still say stick with the 120GB number. However, I would call Linksys and ask them if it supports 48-Bit Addressing with the new firmware, which will allow you to use larger drives.

 

[Liviathan]

I've been dying to get one of these, but waiting for good price. How is yours working out? Care to post a mini review?

 

[kevnich2]

According to Linksys, only the EFG120 and EFG250 support larger hard drives than 120gb. I guess that means this is a no item for me, I have a 200gb drive I'll be putting in which I get. I'm looking now at the buffalo linkstation, it seems like a very good product. Here's the link http://www.buffalotech.com/pro...d=71&categoryid=16

 

[Liviathan]

The buffalo one requires software on the machines.

 

[kevnich2]

From what I read, the buffalo has optional software but you can also setup shares on the linkstation and then map them as another drive. Is this not correct?

 

[kevnich2]

According to the linkstation manual, the linkstation will show up as another host that you can setup just like another PC and map individual shares to computers, so backup software is optional, not required for use. The manual can be found here: http://www.buffalotech.com/downloads/LS_Manual1.1.pdf It looks very similar to a snapserver interface IMO

 

[Liviathan]

Can you upgrade the buffalo? I think I would need at least 200gig to be worth it. I've been in the market for one of these bad boys for a while.

 

[kevnich2]

Yes, from what I've read, it supports the largest IDE hard drive available, currently 300gb. I will be picking one of these up very shortly, the management interface and features look very nice. Also, I was reading it runs off of linux, making it easily hackable (hack it to run DHCP, mail server, web server, etc)

 

[Liviathan]

Great....so I guess i can buy the cheapest model and upgraded.

 

[kevnich2]

Essentially, yes.

 

[Liviathan]

Let me know how yours turns out...where can I read about upgrading and all that.