Some routers offer a USB port which can accommodate hard drives as network drives. You can buy external hard drives with an Ethernet port which essentially makes then NAS drives (network attached storage). You might look into that. As a side note, remember to have a backup plan for any such drive.
Hi,
im running my own webserver at home and since i dont want to have 1 computer turned on the whole day, i thought of having 2 instead so they can help each other. In order to do that, they need to have the same place to store the files, in this case an external hard drive. I know that a usb switcher is an option, because it would allow me to turn off one computer and switch the hard drive to the other that is on. However i wonder if there is a way to have them both connected at the same time without having to switch them every time so i would just need to turn on one and turn off the other. Could you please give me a hint?
Thank you.

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