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Questions about setting up a network drive
Until now I have been using a 2TB WD My Cloud as a network drive and a 3TB WD My Book as a backup drive with Karen's Replicator doing a file by file backup every night.
Some while ago I noticed that my files weren't being backed up so I did a bunch of experimenting and found that it would work if I re-booted the My Book it would work OK for a few weeks and I'd have to re-boot it again. The last few times it wouldn't re-boot until I disconnected it, gave it a few gentle taps and re-connected it so I'm pretty sure the HDD in it is on the way out.
And the My Cloud is older and gets more use so I'm thinking I need to replace both of them before I have a big problem.
I was initially thinking of just replacing the HDDs in them but I happened to be talking to my neighbour when a parcel from Amazon arrived containing a couple of 4TB USB SSDs. When he told me what they cost I was surprised that they were less than half of what a new hard drive for the My Book would cost
I didn't note the brand of his but they were something like these and about the same price
https://www.amazon.ca/ikasus-Externa...978751&sr=8-35
I know it would be straightforward to plug one into the computer as a backup drive and tell KR to back up to it but now I'm wondering if it would be possible to plug one into the router for a network drive?
Would I need to install any special software on it or just plug it in and map it on each of the computers?
Or would these be unsuitable for the applications fir some reason I'm not seeing?