Can two computers share 1 external hard drive?

I have an external enclosure with USB and eSATA, can I connect both to two different computers and used at the same time?

Can two computers share 1 external hard drive?moto guzzi

I am going to go ahead and say No to this one. Since they usually get tied to one connection at a time over USB it's not like you can go buy a USB splitter and do this. If you want to share a drive between two computers the best way to go would be for Network Attached Storage.

Some Routers have USB ports that allow you to plugin an external USB Hard Drive and share data over that since it has the technology to manage multiple connections to it.

I use Apple's Airport Extreme to accomplish this task. It is probably a little pricy for what you are looking to do. Linksys, DLink make devices that can do this for a little cheaper. Asus has a Router with a 250GB HDD in it that can also be used as a BitTorrent client.

But in theory it could work but I doubt it for your scenario.

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one way to accomplish this is to attach the drive to one machine and share it. If your machines are networked, they can both use the drive over the network. That would be the simpilist solution.