Turn my IDE drive into an Ethernet drive?

[WCanyon]

I have a 120GB IDE drive that is attached to one of my two computers. Since I use the second computer rarely (the one the drive is attached to) I'd like to pull the drive out and somehow turn it into a network hard drive. I'm considering just buying a XiMeta drive too, but using an existing drive might save me money.

So my questions:
1) has anyone here turned an PATA IDE into a stand-alone network drive?
2) which enclosure did you use?
3) did it all work simply and easily (no big problems)?

 

[Crashman]

Nah, Tom's Networking had a review of a decent-priced network hard drive box. It was like a regular external drive box, but had a little extra hardware.

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[Crashman]

Nope, that's not it, that one actually has more features and cost probably 2x as much.

Yes, you'd have to set up your router or switch properly with any network device.

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[WCanyon]

That looks pretty good. It's similar to the XiMeta NetDisk, which I was also looking at. But I got the impression from a review that the XiMeta had decent bundled software.

 

[WCanyon]

Here's one that's wireless:
http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Reviews-179-ProdID-WLHDD25.php

And this is a link for a good one in a review ($1k!! but still looks really good):
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1780692,00.asp

 

[Crashman]

Yeh, that cheap one is similar to the one I remember, but for 2.5" drives rather than 3.5" drives.

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[jammydodger]

($1k!! but still looks really good)

I fail to see the point in spending £1000 on a network hard disk enclosure, I mean surly you could just get a via CPU and motherboard a sff case for half that price? It would do the same job, be completly noiseless, wouldnt take up much space and would be cheaper!