• Aaron

  

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  Re: External Hard Drives?

  Thu, May 14, 2009 - 8:03 AM

  since ubuntu has had NTFS write support for a while now, any drive you can write to with your windows box will be useful on the ubuntu one.
  
  so really the question becomes how many files, how large, how often? a thumb drive of sufficient size is always a great solution. if you need something larger, you can build a 500GB 2.5" external for ~$100. For reference, this is about the size of a standard iPod

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• robt.

  

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  Re: External Hard Drives?

  Mon, August 31, 2009 - 2:58 PM

  Or if they were on the same network just set up file sharing on the machines and party on. Ubuntu can do the Samba. That is if you haven't already gone out and bought a drive etc... I realize this reply is pretty stale.

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• Glenn

  

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  Re: External Hard Drives?

  Tue, September 1, 2009 - 2:40 AM

  I've been using just a plain old ordinary thumb drive. I know the question was about hard drives, but from the computer's perspective, they're no different. Formatted to FAT, it works just fine on both OSes.

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• tom

  

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  Re: External Hard Drives?

  Tue, September 1, 2009 - 6:24 AM

  I mostly use a thumb drive (FAT32) and occasionally hookup my Win ext drive (ntfs) to my Ubuntu machine. The main thing with an ext drive is that you have to remember to properly shut it down in Windows (ie, remove-hardware-icon in the tray) or it won't be readable by your Linux machine, as it'll be in a "in use" state.
  
  And this is assuming you're using one of the latest versions that have NTFS support. I think I had to install NTFS-3g when I had 8.04

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