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04-09-2012, 10:34 PM
Can anyone recommend a network storage solution? I have a mini-mac that's serving as a media box, it currently has a 500GB drive plugged into it.

I have Issues with this because the drive is formatted NTFS (it used to be connected to my Windows machine), and I don't have anything to back it up to so that I can reformat it. As you may or may not be aware, MacOS does not natively support writing to NTFS despite being able to read it without issues. Stupid, yes?

So I'm looking into getting a new drive, formatting it EXTFS or whatever MacOS uses, and using that as the primary media drive. Size should be in the 1-2 TB range.

my questions:
Recommended brand?
Source to order/purchase from (Best Buy? NewEgg?)
NAS or just a USB drive to hang off the mini-mac?

Budget right now... if I can keep this under $150, I'll be happy, but if there are no reasonable solutions there I may be willing to push higher.
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