Hey everyone.
I'm going to get an external hard drive for my laptop as my music has taken up pretty much all of the disk space, but I have 0 USB ports left on my computer. And as it's not great to plug anything except a mouse or usb flash drive into a USB hub I want to get a hard drive with an ethernet interface (also meaning I'll have faster connection speeds).
So I was looking at the Network Attached Storage HDDs (I'm looking for something in the region of 500gb to a 1tb drive), but for the same capacity as a solely USB interface drive your going to be paying around £100 or $200 more.
And so I looked I devised this set up...
- Start with my laptop with an ethernet cable coming out, plugged into a ethernet to USB convertor, then that plugged into a female to female USB connector, then that plugged into a USB cable which is plugged into the (cheaper) USB interface HDD.
And so finally (!) my question is: will this above set up work?
One problem I have thought so far is that I will need to get a mains powered HDD not a USB powered one due to the ethernet port not supplying enough power (maybe?).
Thanks to whoever had the patience to read through all of that!


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