[ale] cheap network attached storage?

[H. A. Story]

I like the devices fro Tiger.   I think I have seen the Triton box at 
Fry's.  Love that store,  To bad they use windows server for POS. hehehe 
was there one night when they were having to do a reboot.

Anyways, I would like to hear if you get one of these and how the setup 
went.  I recently went through a heart break of using USB drives.  And 
it appears the the linksys NSLU2 has the same con.  If you format a 
large drive as almost anything other than NTFS you will not be able to 
read it on a windows machine.   If you format it a FAT32 you are limited 
to partition size.  If you format is as NTFS you take a chance of not 
being able to write to it under Linux.  now someone may know away around 
this, I didn't.  I tried several different options.   In the end I put 
the 120Gig drive in a Linux machine.  Then put a 40Gig drive in the ext 
USB device.   I did the partitions as approx. 20Gig and made then 
FAT32.  I had to do it this way for my needs.  I needed a portable 
device that I could carry around and not have to carry a bunch of CDs.  
This also always me to download software updates and then update the USB 
drive.  Don't have to throw out the CDs when they get old.


Adrin
 

Jay Loden wrote:

>I'm looking to pick up a network attached storage device, something along the 
>order of these (home size, not enterprise ones with lots of zeroes in the 
>price): 
>
>http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=207
>
>I want it for running backups from a couple Linux machines over a 
>network...however, none of these devices says anything about how it works, 
>just that they "appear as a drive on each computer on the network" 
>
>Fine if you're running Windows, but what about Linux boxes? Does anyone know 
>of a solution like this that will let me run backups onto a drive over the 
>network when I'm running Linux? I'd prefer not to set up Samba just to talk 
>Windows-speak to one of these devices.
>
>-Jay
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