External USB Drives

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On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 16:46 +0000, Jonathan Allen wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'd like to buy a 1.5Tb (or so) external USB disc drive to use for backup
>> from my main file server.  Most of the ones I see around seem to say that
>> they want Wondiws something - is that necessary or meaningful?  Should I
>> just be able to plug it in and use it?  Do I need to partition and format
>> it, or will it just work?
>
> If you're happy with whatever filesystem it comes with (usually vfat or
> NTFS) then it will just work. You can of course reformat if you wish.
> Personally I put ext4 on my 500GB drive and it works like a charm.
>
> If you have multiple machines you might also want to consider a small
> NAS. I just got a 2TB Iomega ix2 unit for around $300 and am playing
> with it as a backup server for several Linux/Windows/Mac machines. It
> even says Linux on the box :-)


I have a WD NAS. Its OS is linux. works well, there is a web site
dedicated to it

http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/start

after a bit twist, it can be a good file server with ftp, ssh, rsync etc

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