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Hi All, A friend of mine has been looking into setting up a NAS drive for backup and network share of his files. The ideal system would have two 500Gb drives in a RAID 1 configuration It seems that the prebuilt NAS enclosures all use Linux and state the available formats are FAT32, EXT2 and EXT3. He does a lot of video work in raw AVI format, over the 4Gb limit for FAT32 (he's a Windows user) so he wouldn't be able to format it as FAT32. 1. Would there be any problem with using an EXT3 (or 2) formatted drive on a NAS drive accessed by a Windows PC? I'm thinking there wouldn't be as the enclosure's Linux firmware would handle all the data throughput and the enduser PC would just see a drive to read and write to, or is that complete cobblers? 2. If (1) wouldn't work, is there any major issue with an NTFS drive being used in a NAS enclosure? 3. He's also considering building a NAS server out of old bits and installing FreeNAS. Any experience of this, pitfalls, idiosyncrasies? Kind regards, Julian -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html