Routers with USB plug to connect external storage

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Published on 2011-03-16T13:40:09Z Indexed on 2011/03/16 16:12 UTC
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I am just about to buy a new wireless router. I want to be able to hook up a harddrive to it and let the harddrive serve the entire network. I will mostly be storing media and some backups on the drive.

I know I could get some kind of NAS but I would prefer to just hook up one of my many unused hard drives directly to my router. It looks like d-link has several products that do this using shareport.

If you were wanting to have network storage how would you do it?

  1. With a NAS?
  2. Using a router with a USB port. Are these systems robust? What router would you buy?

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