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    HDD ENCLOSURE dual-connections

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Meetloaf13, Aug 3, 2011.

  1. Meetloaf13

    Meetloaf13 fear the MONKEY!!!

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    I have a quick question. Can I have 2 devices simultaneously access my drives with one of these:
    Mediasonic

    One via the esata interface & the other over USB

    Thanks
     
    Meetloaf13, Aug 3, 2011
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  2. debguy

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    I hope that doesn't work because it would almost certainly mess up the file system.
    What you are looking for is called "network attached storage" (short: NAS).
     
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    Unfortunately this is not what I'm looking for. My media player cannot play .iso or full-DVD contents over ethernet, but only over USB or eSata.

    At the same time, my media server needs to stream files to the internet.

    Perhaps I can get a NAS, but I'd hesitate having programs akin to ORB doing on the fly conversion from files stored on a NAS, no?

    Thanks
     
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    Doubtful. Most hard drive adapters (that's all an enclosure is - an adapter bolted to a metal box) only do one connection at a time.
     
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    That's what I figured, and what makes logical sense to me, but I had someone tell me otherwise, just thought I'd query the field in case there is something seemingly counter-intuitive out there =]
     
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    ickibar123 Notebook Consultant

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    Hey !! I have a rosewill rx358 dual outer connection enclosure. I'll plug both the USB and ESATA in and see what happens.
     
    ickibar123, Aug 6, 2011
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    OK what happens is that ESATA is the primary connection that the chip looks at if both USB and ESATA are plugged in. If I have them both plugged in, it's connected thru ESATA. If I then unplug ESATA, it immediately connects with USB, if I then plug ESATA back in, it switches back to ESATA.
    Looking on disk management on win7 and "devices and printers", I can see that both are not connected at the same time.
     
    ickibar123, Aug 6, 2011
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