Is it possible to connect HDD to WiFi router via RJ-45 interface?

Question

Do it yourself

Good day, Habrasobshchestvo!
There was a desire to make some kind of file dump in your home grid.
There is no desire to buy a media server or NAS device. I want a very budget option.
For example, an external hard drive with an Ethernet interface. But, I found only 1 model here. And it's 3 TB, and it costs a lot of money. The farm has an external 750GB (enough for me). All externals have USB (obviously ok). But the USB port in the router is occupied by a modem. Putting a hub on 2 exits is not an option. Since both outputs will be occupied (modem + flash drive, where the physical memory of the router will be taken out). But! There is 1 free Ethernet input!

We go to the market and see a bunch of adapters. Question.
Is it possible to make such a chain: "External HDD -> To it, a USB mother-to-mother adapter -> Into the USB 2 Ethernet adapter -> and connect all this to the router via Ethernet. "?

Or did I write complete nonsense here? :)

Answer 1

No, because USB 2 Ethernet is essentially a network card with a USB interface.

Answer 2

Buy any NAS box with ethernet / usb (2.3) / firewire support, disassemble it, get a 2.5 / 3.5 screw from there, plug in your big one, check where the firmware is stored - on the screw itself or on a flash drive, assemble everything back, check how it works.
Some screws, due to the fact that the firmware is Linux, are formatted in all sorts of ext3, so the new one may have to be formatted the same way.
If the box can gigabit, you still have to update the router to a capable gigabit, it will probably be faster to connect the screw directly via fw / usb3, if it can.

Answer 3

If there is enough power, and the router will understand this complex scheme, then yes.

Answer 4

dd-wrt, openwrt
, the fact is that most likely it will not pull power ... you have an external screw add. does it support food? then go

Answer 5

the cheapest option is
take this or this , plus this , and if the hdd is 2.5" then this is a
total: $ 45.79 :)

Answer 6

Yes, but not without additional costs. The adapter for hard drives to Ethernet is called NAS, and there are quite different types of them: from heaped and large ones the size of a system unit to the adapter format. In addition, there is such a thing as ATA over Ethernet .