On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 08:07 -0500, ken wrote:
Previous posts say that people are successfully using external USB hard drives. Who of you has a recommendation/review of what they've been using, how they like it, what they don't like about it, what it has or lacks or what additional features would be desirable (e.g., a blinky read/write LED). Yeah, price is a consideration, but I've found again and again that it's a mistake to sacrifice quality; the little bit of cash saved is more than swamped by the time and trouble second-rate equipment lays on me. I plan on using this, among other uses, to back up my laptop and other machines, so longevity is definitely an issue. I'm thinking I'd want a capacity of at least 100Gb.
Comments, recommendations, analyses, and opinions cordially invited.
You can also take a look at buying just the external case and then buy the harddrive of your choice. CompUSA sells a bare case that accepts most internal harddrives/CD/DVD drives for about US30.00. Also you only needed to address this to the list once. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998