I'm looking for a reasonably capacious yet not too pricey NAS device to sit on my home network and provide backup storage. To this end I'm quite taken with the MyBook World device from Western Digital.
It appears reasonably priced and has a gigabit Ethernet connection which is nice for shovelling large amounts of data around but I can't seem to find any detailed info on file storage and access.
I'm presuming this thing is going to run SAMBA on Linux to provide a network drive which I can simply copy files to? If so then I also presume the drive will be formatted as FAT32 and thus I'm not going to be able to store files larger than 4GB on it? Surely this would be a major limitation when using it as a backup device as I have quite a few files over this size and don't really want to be running them all through WinZIP or a backup program which can split its output into smaller files?
Anyone got any more detail on this device or even own one?
It appears reasonably priced and has a gigabit Ethernet connection which is nice for shovelling large amounts of data around but I can't seem to find any detailed info on file storage and access.
I'm presuming this thing is going to run SAMBA on Linux to provide a network drive which I can simply copy files to? If so then I also presume the drive will be formatted as FAT32 and thus I'm not going to be able to store files larger than 4GB on it? Surely this would be a major limitation when using it as a backup device as I have quite a few files over this size and don't really want to be running them all through WinZIP or a backup program which can split its output into smaller files?
Anyone got any more detail on this device or even own one?