[ale] cheap network attached storage?

[Geoffrey]

H. A. Story wrote:
> 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.

Lugging around a couple of rw dvds seems like it might be a 'lighter' 
solution.

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Until later, Geoffrey