Me and another friend work on a website. We were wondering if there was a way that you could hook up an external hard drive to a network to where you could dial-up to that memory storage and enter a username and password. This would act much like a server, but we don't need a whole computer, we just need the memory storage, sort of just adding another drive to both computers and they access the same drive, where she could get on it at her house and I could get on it at mine. How could this work? Is it possible?
Can you make an external hard drive become like a server, only for the shared memory?
i'm not sure if you can make it yourself (although i have heard about people overwriting this product's software with a linux flavor, so i think it is possible to make your own version of this product) but western digital offers a solution that fits your description: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products....
they come in different harddisk capacities so do look around. hope this helps.
Can you make an external hard drive become like a server, only for the shared memory?
They do make Router's with a hook-up for External Hard Drives. With that setup i dont know if you could specifically dial into the router and only to the HDD, but you could remote desktop into a PC and access that HDD.
Reply:For just the purpose of having a central location for data.. you do not need a server.. just connect to a computer with Internet connection and share the folder. This will take some router configuration i.e. opening ports and allowing access via your WAN access point. You can also use a free web drive.. just google it and you should get several hits. There you can access data via the web and collaborate.
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