[Novalug] Recommendation: USB Large harddrives 400G(and up) What is a good filesystem to use?

[DonJr]

On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 09:23 -0500, Joel Fouse wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 03:15 -0500, DonJr wrote: 
> > On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 02:33 -0500, maxpublic08 at maxwellspangler.com
> > wrote:
> > > On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, DonJr wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I just got a USB connected hard drive, says "500G" on the box. (but)
> > > > Plugged it in and Gnome(i guess) mounted it at "/media/My Data".
> > > 
> > > > What would be a good format to use for the filesystem on it?
> > > 
> > > I've got four external drives of various sizes from 120 to 300 connected to my 
> > > laptop.  I'm using ext3 based on the maturity of the filesystem and the 
> > > familiarity of the tools..
> > 
> > So these external hard drive(s) {USB, Firewire or eSATA} with a "real"
> > disk drive in them can in general be treated just the same as an
> > internal drive?
> > 
> > This one is called a "My Book" by Western Digital
> > 
> 
> Oh, absolutely.  Just for kicks I've even set up partitions on a USB
> key and formatted one piece as ext3 for my purposes and one as fat32
> for passing things to others in the office. ;)
> 
> - Joel 

I done some of the same with my 2G key (under $30 when I got it).
My larger ones current have files on them that I access from systems
running XP.

But this "My Book" is different in that there is a "real" spinning hard
drive inside it and I'd like to at least give it chance to last for a
while.

-- 
 DonJr