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How to Connect External Hard Disk to Home WiFi without PC
Now you can connect your external Hard Disk as a part of your Home Network. Hard disk price are coming down and the storage capacity is climbing up. We need more storage space and most of these storage spaces are filled digital photos.
After the evolution of smart phones with camera, hundreds of photos are being taken using your high end smart phone and uploaded into external hard disks fro backup.
The demand for external storage device is booming up to backup these Photos, Videos and the hard disk manufactures are seeking solutions to connect your storage drive directly into your network without any difficulty.
Earlier days, we were depending on a dedicated PC to connect your external Hard Disk or connect HD on demand and share it into the entire home network. In this case, the PC should turn on 24/7 and this was not a reliable solution.
There are two solutions to overcome this problem. You can depend on NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices or you can purchase WiFi router with USB port and can use that USB port to connect your external hard disk into the home network. Both of these devices Network Attached Storage and Router with USB have its own pros and cons based on their purpose and use
Network Attached Storage Devices:
NAS devices like external Hard Disks are coming with built in WiFi and you can directly connect the storage device into your existing WiFi network. In addition to this, most of these devices can communicate to nearby device through WiFi.
There is no need for home WiFi network to communicate with device. Instead these HDs can communicate with mobile phones, tablets, WiFi enabled cameras and laptops directly. Some of these hard disks are coming with extra power source will allows the communication while you travel.
If you are a professional and want to carry storage device and to take backup on the way, better to select WiFi (NAS) Hard disks. This wireless portable solution is ideal for photographers and other professionals those want to save their work secure all the time.
While you select a wireless portable device, you have to be careful in certain features that includes storage size, supporting wireless standards, file formats supported, apps support to communicate mobile devices, battery life, price etc.
WiFi Routers with USB Ports:
If you are looking for a storage device for your home the best solution is USB ported WiFi Routers. These routers are coming with one to two external usb ports with regular ethernet ports.
With these USB ports on our router, you can now enjoy your favorite multimedia content stored on your external USB storage devices from anywhere in your home or office by accessing the wireless USB hub.
You can connect any usb devices to this USB port and make accessible to your entire home network. Once you connect your external hard disk to this router, you can use the View Network Computers and Devices utility in Windows or File Explorer in MAC to access a hard drive on the same Wi-Fi network and read, write and share all the files on your hard disk. You can secure your hard disk data connected in the network in Folder / Partition / Disk level with passwords.
Instead of using this USB hard disks, some of the hard disk are coming with built in NIC (Network Interface Card) on the back. These HDs have RJ-45 Jack and can plug external hard drive into one of the ports on your router.
The USB enabled routers are more flexible to use. You can connect any USB hard disks to this router, There is no additional software or changes in firmware need on your existing external hard disks.
WiFi enabled portable hard disks are a great choice if you want to communicate with a range of media files with multiple gadgets and devices. If you want a good storage device in your home with WiFi access into it, then USB based routers are the good choice.
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