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External USB Format...
I presently have a ReadyNAS Duo v2 and an external USB (500GB). I use both a PC and a Mac and backup these to the NAS (a fantastic bit of kit I might add).
My general Paranoia at leaving all my data in one place has led me to use the old 500GB USB-2 drive to backup key files from the NAS (I us ssh "cp" command to copy directly from NAS to USB via port on the front and still get good(ish) speeds).
I'd been having problems with FAT-32 copying files over and realised there was a limitation of file size (the max being 4GB I believe). I decided too try exFAT but apparently the NAS doesn't support this format.
Question: Can anyone point me in the direction of a format that Both Windows (XP Home (32bit)), Mac (OSX 10.6.8 Snow Leopard (64bit)) and ReadyNAS Duo v2 can use other than FAT-32?
I'm afraid I'm not particularly savy when it comes to drive formats! I realise when asking this I'm asking for a universal format for windows mac and linux but hey maybe there's one out there...
My general Paranoia at leaving all my data in one place has led me to use the old 500GB USB-2 drive to backup key files from the NAS (I us ssh "cp" command to copy directly from NAS to USB via port on the front and still get good(ish) speeds).
I'd been having problems with FAT-32 copying files over and realised there was a limitation of file size (the max being 4GB I believe). I decided too try exFAT but apparently the NAS doesn't support this format.
Question: Can anyone point me in the direction of a format that Both Windows (XP Home (32bit)), Mac (OSX 10.6.8 Snow Leopard (64bit)) and ReadyNAS Duo v2 can use other than FAT-32?
I'm afraid I'm not particularly savy when it comes to drive formats! I realise when asking this I'm asking for a universal format for windows mac and linux but hey maybe there's one out there...
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- I'm not a Mac guy, but I believe Snow Leopard will read NTFS - but won't write it unless you buy third party drivers. So NTFS would be an option, if all you need to do on the Mac is restoring files.
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