I am looking for an external hard drive / network attached drive that is a bit out of the ordinary. I would like to find a unit that can connect to my computer via eSATA so it can be used as an external hard drive and use the speeds associated with eSATA. But at the same time I would want it to be able to connect via eathernet as a Network Shared Drive for other devices to use.
I have found NAS units that connect via ethernet and have an eSATA port. The problem is the eSATA is not full read / write enabled. The eSATA connections seem to typically be used as a way of doing back ups etc. I need the unit to be able to read and write as an external hard drive over eSATA and at the same time be able to read and write over the network on ethernet.
Does such an animal exist?
I am ok with needing the unit to utilize multiple drives if needed (internal RAID) to allow read / write to two sources (eSATA and ethernet) at the same time.
I also prefer this to be a stand alone unit so I do not need to leave a computer running all the time for this functionality. If building a computer for this purpose is the only way I would consider it, but is not the preferred route.
Thanks for any help or suggestions
Luke
I have found NAS units that connect via ethernet and have an eSATA port. The problem is the eSATA is not full read / write enabled. The eSATA connections seem to typically be used as a way of doing back ups etc. I need the unit to be able to read and write as an external hard drive over eSATA and at the same time be able to read and write over the network on ethernet.
Does such an animal exist?
I am ok with needing the unit to utilize multiple drives if needed (internal RAID) to allow read / write to two sources (eSATA and ethernet) at the same time.
I also prefer this to be a stand alone unit so I do not need to leave a computer running all the time for this functionality. If building a computer for this purpose is the only way I would consider it, but is not the preferred route.
Thanks for any help or suggestions
Luke