On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Fergus Wilde <fwilde@chethams.org.uk> wrote:
Hello all,
can anyone recommend, from personal successful experience, any of the very large capacity (circa 1 TB) USB external hard drives for use with Linux? I ask because I cannot find a retailer in the UK who will say they will accept a return if the product doesn't work with Linux. Anyone who can give me a model name/ number available in the UK would be specially useful. I would buy a simple 'fill-it-yourself' enclosure, but many of these appear to have non-adjustable limits on the size of disk they will read.
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Cheers Fergus
Hi, I've been having a reasonable amount of success with the Antec MX-1 enclosures. These are eSATA and USB2, (I've only used them as USB2), and are actively cooled by a large, quiet, fan in the bottom of the enclosure. The product webpage on Antec's site indicates that they will take drives up to 1TB although I'm just using Samsung 500GB (HD501LJ) drives in them. I currently use one for my onsite server backup for when I'm doing configuration work on the RAID array and it seems to work fine. Regards Tim -- Tim Hempstead thempstead@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org