Which NAS Drive is supported

Hi,
since i tried to connect my USB printer to the AEBS without succes and I intend to buy an NAS drive which I also like to connect to my AEBS I want to know BEFORE I by it, if there are specific NAS drives supported by AEBS and will work for sure or not.
Can anyone give me a hint where I can read such a list or recommendation by apple or does one have experience with connecting such a drive? If you can give me a recommendation which one is a save buy I'd highly appreciate that.
Thanks

I can't speak for getting a NAS drive connected to AEBS, the whole reason I got AEBS is so I can get rid of my NAS drive. The setup I had was the D-Link WBR-2310 wired/wireless router and the Buffalo gigabit Link Station 320 NAS drive connected to a G4 (Quicksilver) and a TiBook. I only tried one other NAS drive (I can't think of it's name at the moment, I gave it to my cousin to use as a USB drive with his PC) because I couldn't set it up with my Mac.
When I went looking for another drive I decided to go and download the manuals and see which ones at least acknowledged the MacOS in the instructions. I settled on the Link Station. I was able to set it up and manage it through the web browser, but it would periodically drop connection (whether I was using the computer or not.) And, since I wanted it to be my main drive doing back-ups were going to be a chore. I use SuperDuper and neither it nor Carbon Copy Cloner would see a network drive for the Source in a back-up, they would back-up TO a network drive but you couldn't back-up a NAS drive. That led me to SuperDupers forum (http://www.shirtpocket.com/forums/) where I got schooled a bit on some of the possible hazards of MacOS files and fat32.
So my next quest was for a NAS drive that I could leave formatted HFS+. Apparently you can do that with the Link Station but you have to use smb:// protocol instead. It sounded like you had to kinda know what you're doing to do that and I don't when it comes to networking.
And that quest is what prompted me to disconnect my $50 D-Link and go get a $190 AEBS (yeah I could've gotten a refurb for $135, but we just got an Apple store and I drunk the kool-aid and just had to buy something.) With its promise to make almost any USB drive visible on the network, I had to bite. The only problem (can be found peppered throughout this forum) for some, AEBS sees the drive(s) but can't/doesn't mount them and it seems the cure is going to have to come from Apple in the form of a firmware update.
I just tried today to plug the Link Station into my AEBS to erase it and prep it for removal, can't seem to get it working yet. Bottom line for me is I'm gonna try to get the USB drive working on the AEBS. I would suggest you visit those guys at shirt pocket they seemed to be talking heavily about NAS drives and the head guy behind Super Duper sounded like a MacOS fan.
That's my 2 cents.

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