Networking → [Connection Sharing] cheap network hard drive?

Anybody know of any cheap network hard drives (via ethernet -not usb)

Id like to have a centralized drive on my 5 computer network for picture and music file storage

Any hard drive will do - PATA or SATA all depends onthe PC it is installed into then share it... There are no specific network hard drives...

You can build one using some old hardware.

»www.serverelements.com/

Try freenas.
»www.freenas.org

There are devices called NAS (network access storage) like Snap servers. Apparently everyone is getting into the act now. »www.google.com/search?hl ··· +storage

There are devices from Dlink and Linksys that for under $100 can connect USB 2.0 drives to a network. Western Digital or Buffalo have network drives starting under $200.

Thanks, that's a great reference. I have to try this out tonight.

I've got a Linksys NSLU2

I've not had a lot of luck with it, it tends to lock up if you try to FTP a file larger than 1gb from it

just as a straight shared drive tho, it works not bad
also a decent sized 3rd party development community behind it

Here is one:
»www.newegg.com/Product/P ··· d3alt1me

If you already have a spare hard drive you could just buy this and put it in it.
»www.newegg.com/Product/P ··· d3alt1me