Finally getting back to this....NAS looks like a nice option indeed. Western Digital's My Book NAS is decently priced. What model Lacie are you using?
Matt On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Fabrizio Giudici < fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2/19/10 16:31 , Matt Stine wrote: > > All, > > > > Can anyone recommend a good external drive (preferably USB, >= 1 TB) > > that will play nicely across Windows, Mac, and Linux machines? I > > figured with the recent "backup" theme on the podcast that this might > > be a good forum for this question. > It's a hard question. If you can afford spending a bit more, go with a > NAS with Ethernet connection: all the operating system will see it > natively as a remote drive. For instance, I have a Lacie NAS that > works fine with every o.s. I think that internally it uses XFS, but it > doesn't matter after all. OF course it properly manages extended > attributes such as those in Mac OS X. > > - -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people > fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkt/utEACgkQeDweFqgUGxf2PQCgjnv6dBP3gNvEf9n34eMCJSE3 > lYAAnjaoUJBPnRd1NDXV/GFIcvt84UAb > =6inw > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
