robkelk Wrote:Yeah, I'd be suspicious of thrift-shop electronics, too.The instances of another person connecting to my network is slim... and I'm unwilling to put that much trust in my wireless network security anyway.
As for only having two computers that use the drive, do you ever have any visitors who bring laptops? If you do, there's more than two potential computers using the drive. Also, hooking the drive up to the LAN means both computers can use it at the same time.
And I've had reasonably decent luck with thrift store electronics, given my video game collecting fetish. Even my wireless network is (DD-WRT patched) from the thrift. At least part of it, anyway. Although my last attempt at buying a router didn't come out very well.
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