Re: USB NAS adapter?

Have you considered a couple of alternatives that differ from what you're
asking about?

1. Hang the USB drive off a PC that can be left on, share it, and use it as
the backup destination. I'm not a big fan of this as it can be prone to
issues but it doesn't cost anything.

2. For $100 a year get an Office 365 subscription. Up to 5 PCs/Macs (+
mobile devices) get Office and it comes with a TB of OneDrive cloud
storage, which can optionally be synced to other PCs. Bonuses: Accessible
from anywhere, files are backed up offsite, file changes are synced in the
background as they occur, smartphone pics are synced to your PC within
moments of being taken.

Tip: OneDrive's TB of storage can actually, legitimately and at no cost, be
extended to 5TB. For each of the 5 Office licenses, "share" the license
with someone (requires separate email account) instead of just installing;
each shared install gets it's own TB. Very easy to do; sharing is done
within the O365 web console.

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 3:36 PM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 1/18/2016 3:24 PM, Richard Schoen wrote:

Can you describe the use case more ?

I want to setup a network backup destination for my dad's home. He's got
a big hard drive, but needs a way to put the drive on the network.

He doesn't have a stand alone router (which often have NAS capabilities),
otherwise I go that route.

david



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