When it comes to raw speed for the transfer I strongly recommend 
getting a drive with an esata connection. Makes it as fast as an 
internal sata drive. Of course you need to have a esata plugin. With a 
laptop you might be out of luck, with a desktop you can stick in a 
esata card (that comes with the drive) or use an existing connection.. 

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On Friday February 26 2010, Matt Stine wrote:
> Finally getting back to this....NAS looks like a nice option
> indeed. Western Digital's My Book NAS is decently priced. What
> model Lacie are you using?
> 
> Matt
> 
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Fabrizio Giudici <
> 
> [email protected]> wrote:
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> > On 2/19/10 16:31 , Matt Stine wrote:
> > > All,
> > > 
> > > Can anyone recommend a good external drive (preferably USB, >=
> > > 1 TB) that will play nicely across Windows, Mac, and Linux
> > > machines? I figured with the recent "backup" theme on the
> > > podcast that this might be a good forum for this question.
> > 
> > It's a hard question. If you can afford spending a bit more, go
> > with a NAS with Ethernet connection: all the operating system
> > will see it natively as a remote drive. For instance, I have a
> > Lacie NAS that works fine with every o.s. I think that
> > internally it uses XFS, but it doesn't matter after all. OF
> > course it properly manages extended attributes such as those in
> > Mac OS X.
> > 
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