Hi,
Just fishing for a bit of advice ....
I've been running a little home network for a while now,
nothing special, just a small cheap router, and a few PCs.
I was thinking about adding storage, which could be accessible
to any PC using my little network, to do this such storage
would have to be on my ethernet for access from the other PCs.
I thought maybe i could make up a unit just to act as file storage
for my other PCs, as they are getting a bit full up.
I was wondering about possibly getting a cheap old motherboard
and using the four possible IDE points to hold hard drives, (maybe
50 gigs each) the first of which would i guess have to hold its OS,
to drive the mobo, and the ethernet card.
Then it crossed my mind that there might be an easier way,
maybe a PIC with an Eeprom might be able to couple together the
ethernet with a hard drive ?
Or would it be better to stick to using a mobo ?
Any comments ... ?
John
Just fishing for a bit of advice ....
I've been running a little home network for a while now,
nothing special, just a small cheap router, and a few PCs.
I was thinking about adding storage, which could be accessible
to any PC using my little network, to do this such storage
would have to be on my ethernet for access from the other PCs.
I thought maybe i could make up a unit just to act as file storage
for my other PCs, as they are getting a bit full up.
I was wondering about possibly getting a cheap old motherboard
and using the four possible IDE points to hold hard drives, (maybe
50 gigs each) the first of which would i guess have to hold its OS,
to drive the mobo, and the ethernet card.
Then it crossed my mind that there might be an easier way,
maybe a PIC with an Eeprom might be able to couple together the
ethernet with a hard drive ?
Or would it be better to stick to using a mobo ?
Any comments ... ?
John