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Thanks for the suggestions. I'll give them a go and publish the results.

My router is plugged in a conditioned line so this possibility is eliminated too. Thanks

Seriously speaking I have eliminated the overheating possibility because the router has rarely malfunctioned or cut connection randomly before. But with this, it is consistent: around 5 minutes into the process connections are cut but router is still alive, lights are on. weird.

Hahaha. I'm almost at that point. When I do I'll post pictures of the the "redesigned" router.

Ok I tried the network option and let me share my experience for the benefit of others who may be in the same situation. I reformatted the external HD to HFS (very easy in mac) and created folders to mirror folders that contain my critical data. I also created the same folders in my iMac. I...

That seems to be the easiest when I overcome to initial curve of learning how to network macs and pcs. Any useful site I can get started with? the desktop is the imac so I will probably connect the external HD there thru firewire, format it with HFS and share the folders so I can access it from...

Thanks for all the suggestions and help. I sort of boiled it down to 3 options so far yet I still have not concluded what the optimal option is since each has its tradeoffs. So far they are: 1. format it in fat32. access from PC and Mac thru USB/Firewire. Pros: easy. Con: performance issues...

The problem is I'm no networking expert. I am exploring options and looking at the optimal option. There will be tradeoffs. While your suggestion is something I am considering, that would be initially costly for me since I have to learn networking to do that. This is a home scenario: 1 mac, 1 PC...

I'm now evaluating 2 options: 1. Format drive using Fat32 with the tools suggested above (thanks!). 2. Format from MAC in HFS, then purchase and install MacDrive (http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/) to access it from my PC. What's the better option? What are the inherent pros and cons...

So what would be the most optimal thing to do if I want to have a common storage for both mac and PC which would contain files that are accessed at a regular basis like ipod sync or video editing?

That will be a problem because I intended that to be the primary storage for media files like music and videos. What's the performance degradation? What would be the most optimal thing to do if I want to have a common storage for both mac and PC which would contain files that are accessed at a...

Thanks. I'll try that out and post the results. Question: Are there any inherent risk in using fat32 over large partitions (over 32GB) even if I can format it?

That was my first option. I had a Maxtor Shared Storage II NAS but it's not working and I'm not getting any help from Maxtor. So I'm exploring other options. Thanks.

I'm regularly a PC user but have just purchased a second computer which is a MAC. I backup my data to a 500GB External HD with 5 NTFS partitions of 100GB each. Each partition contains a different type of date, ie Music, Videos, Docs, etc. I used separate partition to avoid the risk of corrupting...