I don't understand - the drive and the NIC are orthogonal to each other. Based on your email, an eSATA port might make sense, but I'm not seeing how an USB NIC helps you at all.
Can someone here recommend some specific USB3 to Ethernet hardware adapters, to make a reliable NAS drive. I want this architecture because the
external USB3 drive will frequently need to be disconnected from NAS usage and connected locally to another computer via USB (for certain data updates).
Hartmut - +1-204-339-8331