Reformatting The Time Machine Drive

The backup drive that stored all of my Time Machine backups is going away today, with a little help from HFSExplorer. It’s taken me far too long to finalize my move away from a single platform, but instead to become one with the general concept of Personal Computing.

Of course, now I come back to try and figure out the One True Filesystem… but I think I’m going to just fall back on NTFS for now, seeing how there are hacks to read and write onto this thing, more so than ext3/4. (Wikipedia comparision)

It’s a good thing I kept notes back a couple months ago when I was desperately looking to getting a NAS. There are plenty of ideas cooking in the back of my mind for what I want, but then again, I’m just going to make do with Dropbox and other off-the-shelf programs.

I guess periodic cloning is all I need these days, especially with my media. All other important things should be backed up off site and all over the place. Thank goodness for all these lovely services offering 2GB of free space!

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