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At $29.95 Delivered, USB-to-USB is a nice universal solution since almost every modern PC has it. I also have a USB-to-Ethernet D-Link adapter, but I usually use the USB-to-USB one instead due to convenience. Being a single solution item, I usually carry it in my laptop carrying case and a copy of the driver software is stored on my hard drive in case another machine needs it and doesn't have a means of downloading it from the net.
FOLLOWUP:
Hard Drive Farms are where you have a machine whose main purpose is to host a bunch of large hard drives. You can take your obsolete motherboard and old pentium CPU and put it into a case that has room for hard drives. You can have four EIDE hard drives in there. Also, you can drop in one of those SCSI cards (which is what I've also done) so that your old scsi drives can get a home for them as well.
The USB serves as a convenient connection between the machines and you can exchange/delete files as needed. The old machine doesn't need a lot of CPU speed, so as long as you have Win98 over there, you're set. USB lets me physically isolate the drive farm easily and on the fly too.
Because I have an old 7-disc Nakamichi SCSI CDROM changer drive, I also host that changer on the old machine for reading cdrom burns.... Can you say Nutella? I new you liked that chocolatey knut paste!
[Edited by Startide on 10-16-2000 at 04:02 PM]
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