Network hard drive

[Pete.]

I have a Netgear Wireless dongle at work for internet access and a few of us connect to it. I want to get a external HDD which will connect to the wifi hotspot and share folders only over the local network for several people to access.

Any recommendations or pitfalls to avoid?
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a.k.a 'Geri'

132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Easy-X]

You can get portable hard drives with WiFi built in.

Reminds me: I still have my WD one I meant to sell on eBay
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Royal Enfield Continental GT 535, Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[stinkwheel]

The biggest pitfall is you are letting multiple people access the folders on one HDD. Presumably as read/write users and not read only?

As such, someone WILL fuck it up. 100% garaunteed. Make sure you have good offsite backup.
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[Pete.]

[Benson_JV]

Could also consider something like OneDrive or Dropbox in this instance, protected by user login and job done, provided the files aren't mahoosive.
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[stinkwheel]

Or a VPN to an HDD elsewhere?
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[Riejufixing]

[P.]

I would consider OneDrive. Building site, physical spinning disk, I'd see it being knocked once or twice. Unless you are going solid state.

Could get a Western digital passport Nas and expose to the net, but it's a risk as everyone can get the login page.

Could probably host for you if it's not huge stuff.

[panrider_uk]

VPN to an offsite Synology NAS works well and will give you full user control and backup facilities.

Also the built in firewall can block ip addresses that fail to login correctly after a set number of attempts. This gives you pretty good protection from the outside world.
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Current bikes: Hondas - Forza 750, ST1100 Pan European

[Pete.]

Off-site is difficult as we're sharing 8gb and some files are not only big but edited/shared daily.

I thought the passport drives we're non-wireless Paddy?
I've been looking at the 4tb WD my cloud ones on offer in Curry's. Never used anything like this before so I don't know how suitable it will be and how I can set access levels but for £140 I might just get one and see.
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a.k.a 'Geri'

132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Easy-X]

Might want to look at a Raspberry Pi 4 with a USB3.0 external drive. You can tinker with things like user accounts, home folders, security, VPN etc. for fuck-all money.
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Royal Enfield Continental GT 535, Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[P.]

There are passport wireless pros, bit more costly but nice!

Larger files and wireless fills me with fear though, I still hate mounting 2GB ISOs and accessing wirelessly so its almost worth having a router onsite with a USB/NAS input, getting a 2TB external disk and having users physically plug into the router.

[Islander]

I'd recommend a physical disk onsite, with a nightly back up to offsite/online location.

[colink98]