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I think what you want to do is have two boxes in addition to your Arris modem+router:
1. An external hard drive enclosure that uses eSATA, preferably SATA III if your laptop/desktop support an eSATA connector. This would plug into your laptop and be your working drive to dump your GoPro files to. Your computer can access and transfer data over an eSATA connection at the same speed as it accesses the internal hard drive. Something like http://www.vantecusa.com/en/product/view_detail/275. You can also share the drive over the network as a shared drive whenever it's connected to your laptop/desktop.
2. A NAS enclosure for archiving your "finished" video files (and anything else you want freely accessible to anyone on the network). Something like http://ca.dlink.com/product-category/home-solutions/share/network-attached-storage/. It plugs in via an ethernet cable to your Arris modem+router, and is also set up as a shared drive on all the devices that need access. It transfers data at gigabit speeds across the network, which is not as fast as eSATA, but you're only dumping/reading archived files to/from the NAS box. There are larger boxes out there, such as a four-drive version, that offer features like RAID if you want the data protected from drive failure.
Ideally, if you're doing any work with the video files, you want them as close to the machine working on them as you can. eSATA is fastest, while USB 3.0 and Gigabit ethernet come in a fair bit slower. You definitely want your GoPro Studio software on the machine where you're doing the video work...installing the program files to a network location will slow it down quite a bit.
Hope this helps.
1. An external hard drive enclosure that uses eSATA, preferably SATA III if your laptop/desktop support an eSATA connector. This would plug into your laptop and be your working drive to dump your GoPro files to. Your computer can access and transfer data over an eSATA connection at the same speed as it accesses the internal hard drive. Something like http://www.vantecusa.com/en/product/view_detail/275. You can also share the drive over the network as a shared drive whenever it's connected to your laptop/desktop.
2. A NAS enclosure for archiving your "finished" video files (and anything else you want freely accessible to anyone on the network). Something like http://ca.dlink.com/product-category/home-solutions/share/network-attached-storage/. It plugs in via an ethernet cable to your Arris modem+router, and is also set up as a shared drive on all the devices that need access. It transfers data at gigabit speeds across the network, which is not as fast as eSATA, but you're only dumping/reading archived files to/from the NAS box. There are larger boxes out there, such as a four-drive version, that offer features like RAID if you want the data protected from drive failure.
Ideally, if you're doing any work with the video files, you want them as close to the machine working on them as you can. eSATA is fastest, while USB 3.0 and Gigabit ethernet come in a fair bit slower. You definitely want your GoPro Studio software on the machine where you're doing the video work...installing the program files to a network location will slow it down quite a bit.
Hope this helps.
