I've used USB drives from LaCie, Iomega, WD, Seagate, Buffalo, and some no-name ones - so far they all work! Obviously they have to be formatted to something
eCS can use.
But I usually use network-connected drives so I can access them from any machine under any OS. But avoid the ones that use NDAS - this is a dreadful technology
that requires a driver on the PC (Windows only, naturally) and which restricts writing to only one machine at a time - what were they thinking?
Of the Network drives I've tried I prefer LaCie - apart from a PSU failure (replaced free) they've worked well and can have other USB drives plugged in, although
you have to add the share and give access to it for all users whenever you do this. The WD "MyBook World" tries to sell you their online service, and (maybe
because I don't use that) is much slower than the others.
Network connecting also gets over the problem that I have a T23 with only USB 1.1 ports, which are horribly slow (they really do go at 1/40th the speed of USB 2.0,
so a transfer that would take just over a minute under the latter actually takes an hour!).
So with that in mind I hope nobody minds me piggy-backing a related question onto this thread... Does anyone have recommendations for USB 2.0 cards that will
work with eCS? Either Cardbus, to go in the machine itself, or PCI to go in the docking station. I've tried a Belkin Cardbus card (AUA-1420A) and eCS just doesn't
see it.
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