Does anyone know of a network box -- wire or wifi -- that would let me access eSATA and/or USB drives over my LAN? I'm looking for a dedicated "drive server" not another computer that I need to manage and tinker.

The box would be a form of "file server" that is visible as a LAN resource. There would be some number of USB ports or eSATA ports or both. Any drives connected to these ports would appear as available LAN file store resources.

My first requirement would be something that could be read and written from a linux workstation. Access by a Windows workstation is next priority. {I know that linux can use SAMBA to access Windows NTFS file systems, but I don't want a win-dose only box.}

My USB and eSATA drives are mostly linux EXT4 file systems. I have a few that are NTFS. I also have thumb-drives and SD-media that are FAT32.

I have USB, eSATA, thumb, and SD-media stacked like cord-wood. I want to thin the herd, and organize what I keep. This project will take a while, I hope to use the box from anywhere in the home-office, with any one of several workstations, as a move content around, add+change+delete file systems, and such.

Thanks in advance,
~~~ 0;-Dan

The cheapest I know of it like the Hootoo gizmo. It's slow but connected to usb. Then get a $5 usb to esata adapter then get a sd card to usb adapter. Might be $35.

Some routers come with USB ports these days, though I've never used one.

As for the SATA drive, your best bet is to get some kind of NAS; many persons use a RaspberryPI as a inexpensive NAS. Or you could just share it with NFS or Samba, depending on your network users' needs.