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GarSpear

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1. is there any issue with running a drive labelled as NAS as a regular desktop drive?

and if I decide to add a NAS storage box....

2. How would I go about connecting my upstairs and downstairs drives to a NAS box?

I have a Sky router but it doesn't have a USB drive. I understand some people connect the NAS box to the USB of the router?

I have my old computer upstairs and my new computer downstairs. They are both hard wired using CAT 8pin (RJ45?) cables to the router because I prefer not to use wifi on my desktop PC's.

How would I make a NAS box available to both computers?
 
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The usb port is only for external hard drives.
On many models of routers this is not entirely stable and so I don't advise it, especially since you already have desktops.

There are two types of NAS units.
There is standalone boxes (ranging from 1 disk to 8 disks) like the WD myclound or sinology boxes. These units you configure via software and connect them to either a PC via USB or the network directly via RJ45 lan cable.
Then there is PC type NAS boxes. These are bassicaly desktop pcs that are taking the role as a file server (you can make any PC do this task as it is not intensive at all, or you can you have a PC dedicated to just this role). You then just setup to share the folder or drive on the OS and set the permissions...
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1) No absolutely no issues, a NAS drive is one that is built with higher quality standards to support the harsher environment. It can handle the lower demands of a generic hard drive just fine

2) You either get a NAS enclosure or make a PC into a NAS box (you can use one of your in-use desktop PCs or have purpose built bod for it). You then just setup the file shares in windows (or Linux or whatever OS you want to use) and then you can access the networked file share on the other computers.
 
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GarSpear

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Thank you. So I could share data between both computers.

Am I being confused by the USB port or lack thereof on my router?

It seems some NAS boxes come with a RJ45 connection (is that 8p8p regular network cable?)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00MO6ZV52/ref=twister_B00OLCUQWK?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

If I just connected that box to the router using an RJ45 network cable could I then set up permissions to access the box from both computers via the router?
 
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The usb port is only for external hard drives.
On many models of routers this is not entirely stable and so I don't advise it, especially since you already have desktops.

There are two types of NAS units.
There is standalone boxes (ranging from 1 disk to 8 disks) like the WD myclound or sinology boxes. These units you configure via software and connect them to either a PC via USB or the network directly via RJ45 lan cable.
Then there is PC type NAS boxes. These are bassicaly desktop pcs that are taking the role as a file server (you can make any PC do this task as it is not intensive at all, or you can you have a PC dedicated to just this role). You then just setup to share the folder or drive on the OS and set the permissions there.

As far as "connecting the box to the router" I would have to know what you are using to give you anything beyond generic instructions.
 
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