You could use a NAS box to store your files.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System#Platforms
quote:
NFS is often used with
Unix operating systems (such as
Solaris,
AIX,
HP-UX), Apple's
macOS, and
Unix-like operating systems (such as
Linux and
FreeBSD). It is also available to operating systems such as Acorn
RISC OS,
[13] the
classic Mac OS,
OpenVMS,
[3] MS-DOS,
[14] Microsoft Windows,
[15] Novell NetWare,
[16] and IBM
AS/400.
[17] Alternative remote file access protocols include the
Server Message Block (SMB, also termed CIFS),
Apple Filing Protocol (AFP),
NetWare Core Protocol (NCP), and OS/400 File Server file system (QFileSvr.400).
SMB and
NetWare Core Protocol (NCP) occur more often than NFS on systems running Microsoft Windows; AFP occurs more often than NFS in Apple
Macintosh systems; and QFileSvr.400 occurs more often in
AS/400 systems.
Haiku recently[
when?] added NFSv4 support as part of a Google Summer of Code project.
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i have not heard of these OSs before. i have read a little about RAID, so i know there is a way to use it for speed instead of redundancy, but for the moment, i am on a tight budget, i was already thinking of setting up 3 drives, one OS (possibly 3 drives now, one for each OS) one library drive for sounds like virtual or software instruments and effects, one project drive, one redundant storage drive. add them up and you get 3! lol!
since i was already thinking of that, how about the Mac OS X volume formatted what ever the normal format for Mac OS X is and the project drive formatted as ExFat?
if not, how about AIX,
macOS,
Solaris,
Inspur K-UX,
HP-UX, or
eulerOS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AIX
quote:
AIX (
Advanced Interactive eXecutive, pronounced
/ˌeɪaɪˈɛks/[3]) is a series of
proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by
IBM for several of its computer platforms. Originally released for the
IBM 6150 RISC workstation, AIX now supports or has supported a wide variety of hardware platforms, including the IBM
RS/6000 series and later
POWER and
PowerPC-based systems,
IBM System i,
System/370 mainframes,
PS/2 personal computers, and the
Apple Network Server.
AIX is based on
UNIX System V with
4.3BSD-compatible extensions. It is one of six commercial operating systems that have versions certified to
The Open Group's UNIX 03 standard (the others being
macOS,
Solaris,
Inspur K-UX,
HP-UX, and
eulerOS ).
[4]
The AIX family of operating systems debuted in 1986, became the standard operating system for the
RS/6000 series on its launch in 1990, and is still actively developed by IBM. It is currently supported on
IBM Power Systems alongside
IBM i and
Linux.
AIX was the first operating system to have a
journaling file system, and IBM has continuously enhanced the software with features such as processor, disk and network
virtualization, dynamic hardware resource allocation (including fractional processor units), and
reliability engineeringported from its
mainframe designs.
[5]
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can Windows 10, Mac OS X HS and Linux Ubuntu 16.04 see and use files created by each other in any of these OSs (IBM AIX,
macOS,
Solaris,
Inspur K-UX,
HP-UX, and
eulerOS)? Mac OS X or Windows 7 is not class compliant, because i just tried reading files created in Mac OS X on my external HD with my Windows 7 laptop.
