USB External HDD

StephenB wrote:

wrz0170 wrote: Thanks :) I went the round about way and hooked up my laptop via ethernet. That did the trick to get the data off the external and onto the NAS in a quick fashion. Unfortunately, I tried the above and could not get it to go. Not sure if it's a read/write thing or not. I will keep plugging away. Possibly the USB drive isn't formatted to allow the NAS to read it. Since you have the data copied, it may be fine to let things be. BTW, even if you have redundant disk drives in the NAS, you still need to back it up. There are failure modes that can result in loss of data (a couple of weeks ago I had to reload all the data back onto mine). One way to do this is to get a large USB drive which is only for backup.

Great advice about the back up. I plan on using the external for now but I will most likely get a larger drive to accommodate the household since we do both time machine and have some irreplaceable pics, etc. Hopefully find one that will play nice with our Macs and the Ultra 4.