[jtwrace]

I would like to use one for a HD and my printer.  Does anyone do this without issues?

Thanks-

[jtwrace]

One more question. 

Since I'm going to use this as quick access around the house where I use MAC and Windows PC's, what format would be best for the HD?

I'm looking at this HD from iomega http://go.iomega.com/en-us/products/factory-outlet/desktop-hard-drives/external-hard-drive-desktop-prestige/?partner=4760#where_to_buyItem_tab

[jtwrace]

Guess nobody uses the AExtreme.   

[mathgeek97]

Somebody can correct me if I am wrong, but I think you'll need to format the drive with a FAT32 partition if you want to share between Macs and PCs.
I have a 1.5GB Samsung Story drive.  It's large and nearly silent.

[srb]

Mac OS X
 
Mac OS X v10.3 and later include read-only support for NTFS-formatted partitions. The GPL-licensed NTFS-3G also works on Mac OS X through FUSE and allows reading and writing to NTFS partitions. A performance enhanced commercial version, called Tuxera NTFS for Mac^[30], is also available from the NTFS-3G developers. NTFS write support has been discovered in Mac OS X 10.6, but has not been activated as of version 10.6.1, although hacks do exist to enable the functionality.

[skunark]

Since the airport extreme with a usb drive is essentially a NAS the file system won't matter, but what does matter is the network protocol.  It's been a while since I've had a windows machine or even booted to my windows partition on my macs so I don't remember but I think you have to install Apple's Bonjour on Windows to see it.  I'm sure if you go to Apple.com, under support and review the manual it will indicate what steps you would have to do.

I would stay clear of FAT32 and Apple probably won't acquire the licenses to write to an NTFS drive and besides the HFS+ is a better file system.  Anyways, I don't think you have a choice with the filesystem on the Airport Extreme.