Mark Roberts wrote: > After reading several messages on the list about using big external > hard drives for storing photos, I thought I should probably go that way > myself. But I was wondering whether to go USB2 or FireWire. Finally I > decided on... none of the above. I chose Ethernet :)
Sounds like it could be slow to me - even pushing a hundred gigs or so up from a desktop to a USB 2.0 dive is time consuming. I have two desktops cabled together via a gigabit connection and that seems slower than the USB 2.0 on large file transfers. Couldn't you just enable file sharing for the remote drive on your desktop, and then set them up as mapped network drives on the laptop? (Assuming your desktop and laptop are set up to see each other on a wireless network.)I think that would result in the remote drive just showing up as another drive on the laptop. (I've never done that with a wireless network but that is basically what I've done with the drives on my axillary PC on a cabled network.) Have fun with the disk copies - I'm at about 1.4 terabytes of data and just started in on my last batch of DVD's. I've only done a couple small batches of CD's and this will really slow to crawl soon - it takes almost as long to copy a 700 mb CD as it does to copy a 4.5 gig DVD. - MCC -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo, Michigan www.markcassino.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
