Hi
Will this work? my external had enclosure has 2 ports on it. 1x usb 3, and 1x esata 3. the usb 3 port is not great, i know the esata works great. what i want is for the hdd to be connected to my network then for media players to access the content via ethernet using then shared folders / smb.
I have 2 options, get the hdd connected to a router via esata, or buy a 4 bay NAS enclosure which is by far the most expensive option, as I would need one with 4 gb ethernet ports.
If I connected the hdd to a router with esata capabilities would it be accessible to the media players on thensame network?
I set up my network many years ago and got it slighty wrong, but it workes fine. I had a media player that the hdd enclosure connected to it via esata, the media player was connected to my router via ethernet and 3 more android media players located in different rooms were connected to the same router via ethernet and it could connect to the content on the hdd enclosure through the media player.
Some time later I realise that what I should have gone with was a NAS....... cut a long story short, my media player that the hdd enclosure is connected to, broke and my new one doesn't have esata connections, just usb 3.0 and ethernet/wifi.
Help is much appreciated
thanks
Will this work? my external had enclosure has 2 ports on it. 1x usb 3, and 1x esata 3. the usb 3 port is not great, i know the esata works great. what i want is for the hdd to be connected to my network then for media players to access the content via ethernet using then shared folders / smb.
I have 2 options, get the hdd connected to a router via esata, or buy a 4 bay NAS enclosure which is by far the most expensive option, as I would need one with 4 gb ethernet ports.
If I connected the hdd to a router with esata capabilities would it be accessible to the media players on thensame network?
I set up my network many years ago and got it slighty wrong, but it workes fine. I had a media player that the hdd enclosure connected to it via esata, the media player was connected to my router via ethernet and 3 more android media players located in different rooms were connected to the same router via ethernet and it could connect to the content on the hdd enclosure through the media player.
Some time later I realise that what I should have gone with was a NAS....... cut a long story short, my media player that the hdd enclosure is connected to, broke and my new one doesn't have esata connections, just usb 3.0 and ethernet/wifi.
Help is much appreciated
thanks