The idea of "storing" such on one machine is just a bad idea. That is, this forum is full of folk trying to recover from storing things on one machine.
Ok, once we get past the same old traps you could find some box/device/thing that you plug a drive into and on the other side is ethernet.
Example at http://www.geeks.com/products_sc.asp?cat=644
(see the network to USB drive adapters.)
Bob
I've been using an old desktop to store my music files (approx. 100GB) and have it on my network to share with my other computers, as well as my entertainment system. I would like to get away from using the desktop and use a network hard drive to save some energy, not to mention get rid of a tower.
I've looking at getting a drive to connect to my current router via ethernet. I've also considered buying a newer router that lets me plug in a hard drive using USB.
Looking for thoughts/recommendations on which is the better way to go. Thanks for any input!

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