Network Storage

[philip.kluss]

I'm looking at purchasing a new network storage device, specifically
the Western Digital NetCenter drive. I need it to appear as a local
drive on the server so that it can be backed up properly with the
Veritas Backup Exec Agent but I would like to relieve the server of the
actual duties of writing things to disk. For this purpose I would like
it to show up as a mapped drive on the users' computers. That is
possible right? I just need verification of that before I purchase
one.

Thanks.

p.s. - any recommendations on different, yet comparable, products are
welcome.

-pk

 

[Neil Maxwell]

I'm looking at purchasing a new network storage device, specifically
the Western Digital NetCenter drive. I need it to appear as a local
drive on the server so that it can be backed up properly with the
Veritas Backup Exec Agent but I would like to relieve the server of the
actual duties of writing things to disk. For this purpose I would like
it to show up as a mapped drive on the users' computers. That is
possible right? I just need verification of that before I purchase
one.

Don't know about the WD, but my Iomega network drives only show up as
mapped drives, not as local drives. One of them has USB, but it's
only for adding additional drives, not for connecting directly to a
PC.

In order to be a local drive and a standalone network drive, it seems
you'd need to have it connected via USB and the network connection at
the same time. I don't know of any that will allow that, but I
haven't followed them for a while now.

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