Hello Jan, > 2) what external storage is recommended ? > I saw I have a choice of Firewire-400/800 and USB 2.0
FW800 -> FW400 -> USB from the fastest to the least fast > Speed is of some importance, but I would like to be able to > share the storage with other (windows) systems too ... > That may mean using a FAT32 filesystem perhaps ? > Does the MAC support that natively with OS-X ? yes, including Unicode. NTFS is supported too, but not so reliably (e.g. reading is ok, writing is not) > Or would an HFS+ external disk be muchbetter, and use yet > another cheap Windows compatible one just for backup ... good idea, even if you can use FAT32 formatted disk without apparent problems, HFS+ is always your best bet. Of course you can partition one physical drive to a PC (FAT32) and Mac (HFS+) parts. Cheers, Peter -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
