On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> 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 > > poc > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- http://etvillage.blogspot.com/ -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
