Well kind of diy I suppose, as I'll be installing it myself?!? I have great respect for the advice from many folk here so hope you'll bear with me...
I'm looking for an external hard drive for my home network, about 500Gb capacity, which ideally would be networked rather than simply a USB jobby. Mainly for backing-up purposes.
Any recomendations as to good models and/or brands, or those to avoid? I've noticed LaCie and Freecom at dabs.com - comments?
Don't know a lot about these devices, but if it's behind a hardware firewall (ie in my Linksys router) is it safe to assume a networked drive is pretty secure (ie without the software firewalls my PCs have?)
Are they intended to be run 24/7?
In general, are these upgradable like a PC - ie if I bought a small capacity one now could I swap in a new standard larger HDD in a couple of years time? Or is that oversimplifying things?
Thanks for any advice David