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<b><u>Short answer</u></b><b>:</b>
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<div>- cheaper than dirt, or at least double digits, not triple
(in dollars)<br>
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Sorry this is not going to happen, adjust the figure & come back
later. <br>
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Lookup one of the 'of the shelf' -W.D My Books, or whatever, home
NAS systems. You can get or build one like these, copy all your
data:<br>
- Slowly by browsing to the home-NAS web interface from your old
devices or PCs.<br>
- Faster by connection to the home-NAS file share OR direct
connecting a USB adapter from home-NAS to the old IDE's or SD-cards.
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If you D.I.Y you may get a better system. Maybe combine a new
router/firewall in the NAS to solve the two network, wired &
WiFi, problem. <u>but the price will be more or less the same</u>.
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Because ->...<br>
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Long Answer</u>:<u><br>
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<div dir="ltr">- if it can handle IDE drives it would be awesome -
all my old drives are IDE , and it would be nice to continue
using them.
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Nope, it probably will be a bad idea to use the old disks, instead
of buying a one new big efficient HD:<br>
- It will cost you more money to connect & use the old ones. If
you have a motherboard that can accept all of them, it will use a
lot more electricity, if you do not have one it will cost you on top
of that to get the old one's even connected.<br>
- It will make a lot more noise, heat and you pay for damping &
cooling it.<br>
- They are old & getting older, they are going to die soon, you
do back up:-)<br>
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<div>If not, I need a solution to connect the older drives - at
least so I can transfer the data without taking apart an older
computer and physically mounting each drive. <br>
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Your home-NAS will have it setup for you, by using NFS, SMB or a web
interface, whether built from scratch -running your own linux server
& services on hardware similar to the one's that are suggested
for FreeNAS projects, or proprietary solution. <br>
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After you have setup the file share in the NAS, SAN or whatever you
can boot your old device/PC and move the data to the share:<br>
- Slowly by browsing to the home-NAS web interface from your old
devices or PCs.<br>
- Faster by connection to the home-NAS file share <br>
OR <br>
Take out the old IDE's, SD-card or whatever holds your data and plug
it with a USB adapter to the home-NAS.<br>
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<u>See</u>: Open source implementations FreeNas, Openindiana,
Owncloud (not exactly a NAS but you may like it). And proprietary
solutions, W.D. My book or whatever.<br>
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<div>- 2 drives (maybe more?)</div>
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Yep, but... as you ask that it be cheap, make sure you address the
backup before you spend on redundant disks -AS THEY ARE NOT
BACKUPS!. And, in today high density disks era, you <u>DO NOT</u>
use <u>raid 5</u> -It is statistically & practically granted to
fail. Go for raid 1, 6 or 10.<u><br>
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<div>- accessible by both wired and wireless connections, if
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No problem, see above.<br>
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<div>Questions:</div>
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<div>1. What do I do if my wireless router has two IP networks,
one for the wired computers and the other for the wireless (a
real situation and also a real pain in the ass - wired
computers and laptops could not reach one another)?<br>
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- You have an option in the router to use only one network or brig
the mandatory two.<br>
- You have an option to change/upgrade the firmware to one that can
do the above. See: OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato, etc.<br>
- Get a new router or build a home-NAS that is a router too.<br>
- Brig the networks on another device, build a home-NAS that is a
brig for the two networks.<br>
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<div>2. Is there a simple way - or any way - to connect to the
drive from several networks (because the cell phones have a
different IP address, and also the wired and wireless devices
might have separate IP addresses)?</div>
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Yes, you share the drive & connect with web or brig the
networks, see above. <br>
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HTH,<br>
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