[PLUG] USB drives ???

[Ed Sawicki]

AthlonRob wrote:
> Mike Neal wrote:
> 
>>Any recommendations or warnings on USB drives, 20GB or more?
> 
> 
> Y'know, I picked up a 300GB external Seagate drive for around $150 after
> rebate the other day.  It was at Fry's, I know... but the deal was a
> good one.  :-)
> 
> It feels to me like the huge (*huge*) vfat partition slows things down
> sometimes, and I wouldn't want to really run a desktop OS off of it, but
> the thing is GREAT for backups and such.

I saw the drive. I wondered whether I could refomat it to ext3.
Any thoughts on this?

Ed