Will I be able to add new files from my computer to the external hard drive attached to the Media Player using the LAN?
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Yes. All that is needed is to open a win explorer window set as a network share and then cut and paste as usual. The procedure is detailed in the download PDF manual.
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No. You can unplug the drive and put it anywhere a USB port exists. This could be a USB port connected to a router or a router with USB ports. In Windows, you will still need to see the drive, whether as a local drive (My Computer) or a shared network drive (My Network). However, to upgrade the system updates, you need to be connected to a computer.
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Yes, you can connect an external hard drive using one of two USB 2.0 ports (front or rear), and can then watch movies stored on the connected drive in any of the supported formats. If your external drive requires more power than one USB port can provide you may need to consider an externally powered drive like the WD MyBook or similar.
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This unit has a USB port which can be used to display your photos/movies, provided they are in a format compatible with the WD player . It won't read any other external storage device such as a hard drive on your PC. If you are watching photos/movies using the USB port, you don't have to be connected to the internet.
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No it cannot by itself. The unit will only stream from your main hard drive inside your computer (usually drive C:). You can stream from an external hard drive connected to your router if you have a media server program that was included with your router's software or with a third party program such as Twonky. However, the formats the player will read are limited and even then it may not read those formats.
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Yes very easily. Open the hard drive file letter your hard drive is connected to example computer/a then drag that file to this letter. Etc Etc
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Yes, you can connect an external hard drive. It plays many types of media formats, mkv, avi, mp4, wmv, flv. though it isn't the greatest for flv. It does not have a netflix app.
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yes the ugoo7b should see your Nas as a media serverjust add a new source on the your video files or audio files and we should have an option to see any network devices on your network
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Not clear on your question, but you CAN access your PC media files using "VIERA connection" once you have set up internet access.
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Depends on the backup software, but generally yes. You connect them not directly, but by attaching the drive to a compatible router on your network. Some routers have USB jacks for hard drives. Do a search on "attach hard drive to router" and you'll get information. This is called "network attached storage" (NAS for short), by the way.
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I have successfully transferred data from discs in an external USB-connected caddy, such as a Cavalry. I have not tried it with several in the Mediasonic as JBOD, but have my doubts. I'd try getting one external hard drive to act as a bridging device (ideally big enough to accommodate the 2TB drives if they are not full) than make the 2TB drives into a 6TB RAID array.
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YesYou plug it into a router and can access it from any of the computers on your network (it is a network drive)You may want to "map the drive" with a letter so you computer sees the drive under My computerI use it as a backup to all my kids computer and a central location for all the music, photos etcYou can also access the music on the drive from a SONOS device so you can play the music over your stereoI have 2 of these
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Not unless you have the right software to only read the hard drive. This device only turns the Hard Drive into an External Device. It has no options whatsoever.
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You do not need anything special to be able to play media stored on a portable, external hard drive. The only thing you must do is make sure that your media is in a format that is compatible with this receiver.
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Yes. For example, I have my NAS adapter attached to 3.5-in laptop hard drive that is in an external case which only has a USB port. Follow the instructions and format the portable storage using the NAT adapter utility. By default, it creates 3 folders for you: Music, Photo, and Video. Plus there is a Media Server utility. So, again, I would have to say, yes.
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I'm not sure if you can plug a external hard drive directly to the t.v., I usually connect my t.v. through my local network. For example I'll turn on my computer and have it set up through windows media player. Same thing with my music......
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This will support a VMware image over a LAN connection, I would suggest using the aggregated ethernet option which this also supports. DO NOT do anything funky like running encrypted RAID 0/1/5 etc. Run an ext3 (limit 16GB file size) with what ever flavor of raid you like. This will not be fast but will work. Have the VMplayer on a desktop / Laptop and point the player / workstation to the file located on the NAS box.