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Mwave has the Zonet ZNS8030 USB LAN Disk Module for $26 with free shipping. Turns your USB hard drive into a NAS drive so that you can access it across your entire network.
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I've seen these devices a couple times before, another brand iirc. Cool idea but invariably they either don't work, or are very slow, or both. I wish I could find more reviews, but there's not much out there. It's just one of those gizmos you know is going to disappoint, even before you commit to the purchase.
Great idea. You have a USB 2.0 device that you want to punish because it works too fast. So plop it on to an ethernet network to handicap it a little bit. Kill that throughput.
Or, maybe you're a business with no IT acumen. No common sense. You say, "Hey, why have any reasonable in house server? We can get one of these and have a "server" for anyone!"
True, slow and less versatile than a server but the question is, what is the lowest cost alternative that still has decent (GbE and say 20MBps or higher) performance... besides reusing some old system which if you don't have a lot of hard drives, tends to be large and power hungry in comparison to a purpose specific alternative.
IIRC one of my fileservers with around 6 HDD in it consumes slightly under 100W with all drives spinning but light load / mostly idle. Granted roughly half that is the drives themselves but half isn't. A standalone module like this is probably closer to 3W by itself.... though it adds up, 3W * 6 HDD to compare, you'd be at 18W and a lot of fiddly cabling and a need for a (7+ port) switch plus its own power consumption to network them all... might be a wash from a power consumption perspective, a remotely modern PC underclocked and undervolted "can" consume under 30W before adding HDD(s).
However, I doubt anything with decent performance is going to be a 3W module.