Name of hardware question?

[Peteyboi]

I have an xbox media center and play all my movies through it. I told a friend about this and they suggested a type of drive you can buy that just has power input and ethernet output so it works as a server and I would be able to keep all my files on it without having to boot up a computer. Would that be caled a SAT drive?

And breifly how do they work, price range?

Thanks to anyone that can offer some information on the subject.

 

[ex_reven]

Nas?

 

[Peteyboi]

Now that you say it, yes I think I mean a NAS drive.

Can I run a LAN cable from them into my xbox?

 

[bruins004]

Hmm I dont know about that with the XBox360.
But in order to store things you have 2 options a SAN or a NAS
SAN stands for Storage Access Network
NAS stands for Network Access Storage

Sounds like you just need a NAS to store files and easily retrieve them.
I dont know if XBOX has that capability as I dont have one.

 

[Peteyboi]

Im not plugging the 360 into it. I have a old xbox that is modded with the X3 chip so it acts as a media center. Infact the best media center around. Just had no clue about the NAS drives. I think Im starting understand how to use it. Anyone got one for sale. 0.5 TB would be nice.