Neatest external drive I ever saw could attach via usb, firewire. or ethernet! It had nfs and samba and could be direct attach or network attach and the price was super reasonable.<br>Very nifty device but I don't remember who makes it. I'll dig around and if I find it I'll post a link.
<br><br>--Dennis<br><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">JJ Neff</b> <<a href="mailto:jjneff@yahoo.com">jjneff@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I want to use a Harddrive with an external chassis with USB/Firewire. I have one picked out but then a few thoughts struck me!<br><br>If I use the external storage on Linux it will show up as SD* drive and I will format it with a linux Filesystem and then it won't work in Windows , but If I use FAT will I get horrible performance and be limited in the size of partitions and files?
<br><br>What are some of you doing for large external storage?<br><br>I also am in the market for an NSLU2 linksys with attached storage - my hope is to get a debian system running on a USB attached Hardrive then I have one place to go for LAMP and Files (large videos and music) (and can keep my game system off when not needed)
<br><br>I lost my main PC today when my videocard heated up too much. It froze , I vacuumed everything out (DUSTY!) and then NO booting!- After reviving an OLD gentoo box and copying data I was saving on it off to a win latop via network I used piece by piece to determine what was wrong- Turns out the 450 Watt Power supply died at the same time the video card froze (maybe they went together)
<br><br>SO I had to yank a 250 Watt power supply and slap it in - didn't power up one dvdrom drive or floppy to save a little power. So I'll be buying a new power supply or a new Bare bones - great one at TigerDirect.<br>
<br>Anyway since I have to buy some new parts I figured I'd buy an NSLU2 and external HardDrive and get the system setup - I will probably need 2 Externals - One to attach to the NSLU2 and a second to have as tranport for doing Backups. Man when I lost this PC for a day I was totally LOST! - The bigger the HArddrives get the more there is to lose all at once!
<br><br>Anyway what are some of you doing for backup and retention of data etc.<br><br>Also some suggestion for how to backup Home dirs, /Opt/Vault and other select locations (VMware images etc) script samples are welcome!
<br><br>Also the video card is running right now and seems to be OK but I haven't yet watched video or tried 3d graphics...<br><br>JJN<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>nflug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">
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