11 Nov
2003
11 Nov
'03
10:45 p.m.
I have a 4-year old DELL desktop with a heavy CRT monitor that I'm going
to give away soon .
I also have a 2 month old laptop. Both computers run Linux/SuSE.
I would like to buy an external disk to save most of my s/w
development now residing on my old desktop.
But I would like to be able to use it also with my laptop.
Both computers have some USB ports so I daresay an external USB disk
would be fine ..
I'd appreciate some suggestion about a USB reliable, large capacity but
portable, external disk or
any alternative solution.
Thank you in advance.
Maura
9 Feb
9 Feb
8:01 p.m.
New subject: [SLE] External disk choice
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 3:45 pm, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
I have a 4-year old DELL desktop with a heavy CRT
monitor that I'm going
to give away soon .
I also have a 2 month old laptop. Both computers run Linux/SuSE.
I would like to buy an external disk to save most of my s/w
development now residing on my old desktop.
But I would like to be able to use it also with my laptop.
Both computers have some USB ports so I daresay an external USB disk
would be fine ..
I'd appreciate some suggestion about a USB reliable, large capacity but
portable, external disk or
any alternative solution.
Thank you in advance.
Maura
Please check the date on your system.
There was a recent thread here "Recommendations for an external USB hard
drive" that answered your question.
IMHO, shop for
1. warranty on the hard drive first (Seagate has 5 year)
2. capacity
3. enclosure (USB 2.0 only or combo USB and Firewire)
4. cooling or ventilation: passive or active?
5. external power supply or can it be powered by USB?
6. weight of each piece (enclosure vs power supply brick)
Stan
8:22 p.m.
New subject: [SLE] External disk choice
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 16:45 -0500, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
I have a 4-year old DELL desktop with a heavy CRT
monitor that I'm going
to give away soon .
I also have a 2 month old laptop. Both computers run Linux/SuSE.
I would like to buy an external disk to save most of my s/w
development now residing on my old desktop.
But I would like to be able to use it also with my laptop.
Both computers have some USB ports so I daresay an external USB disk
would be fine ..
I'd appreciate some suggestion about a USB reliable, large capacity but
portable, external disk or
any alternative solution.
Thank you in advance.
Maura
1st - please check the clock/time on the machine your wrote this email
on, it is off by over two years.
2nd - This was just discussed on this list in the past week. Please
search the archives for all of the answers given at
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2006-Feb/0857.html
--
Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
10 Feb
10 Feb
12:22 a.m.
New subject: [SLE] External disk choice
On Thursday, February 09, 2006 @ 1:23 PM, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 16:45 -0500, Maura Edelweiss
Monville wrote:
> I have a 4-year old DELL desktop with a heavy CRT monitor that I'm going
> to give away soon .
> I also have a 2 month old laptop. Both computers run Linux/SuSE.
> I would like to buy an external disk to save most of my s/w
> development now residing on my old desktop.
> But I would like to be able to use it also with my laptop.
> Both computers have some USB ports so I daresay an external USB disk
> would be fine ..
> I'd appreciate some suggestion about a USB reliable, large capacity but
> portable, external disk or
> any alternative solution.
>
> Thank you in advance.
> Maura
>
1st - please check the clock/time on the machine your
wrote this email
on, it is off by over two years.
2nd - This was just discussed on this list in the past
week. Please
search the archives for all of the answers given at
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2006-Feb/0857.html
--
Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
As Ken says, this was just recently discussed on this list. Here are a
couple of general/high-level things I got out of the discussion.
1) It was mentioned that the drive is better having its own built in fan to
cool the drive. Many don't. Depending on the environment you're working
in, if the room temperature doesn't stay reasonably cool, the built in fan
would likely add life to your drive.
2) If you buy an enclosure/caddy instead of just a single unit/hard drive
box, you then have the flexibility to swap in different hard drives. With
mine, you just buy an extra tray any time you want to have another mountable
drive. Buy a tray, buy a drive, and mount it to the tray. Then, at least
on mine, you swap the drives out by using a key to unlock the drawer, slide
out one drive, slide another one in, and then re-lock it. It takes about a
minute to swap drives. Even if you don't think you'll need the extra
capacity now, you might down the road.
Greg Wallace
6:33 a.m.
New subject: [SLE] External disk choice
With
mine, you just buy an extra tray any time you want to have another
mountable drive. Buy a tray, buy a drive, and mount it to the tray.
Then, at least on mine, you swap the drives out by using a key to
unlock the drawer, slide out one drive, slide another one in, and
then re-lock it. It takes about a minute to swap drives. Even if
you don't think you'll need the extra capacity now, you might down
the road.
so what's the name, rank & serial number of this wonder ;^) ?
--
Gracia...Cooleemee, NC Registered Linux user #263390 - SuSE 10 Pro
My country, right or wrong. If right, to be kept right, if wrong, to be
put right.
9:15 p.m.
New subject: [SLE] External disk choice
On Thursday, February 09, 2006 @ 11:33 PM, Gracia Littauer wrote:
> With
> mine, you just buy an extra tray any time you want to have another
> mountable drive. Buy a tray, buy a drive, and mount it to the tray.
> Then, at least on mine, you swap the drives out by using a key to
> unlock the drawer, slide out one drive, slide another one in, and
> then re-lock it. It takes about a minute to swap drives. Even if
> you don't think you'll need the extra capacity now, you might down
> the road.
so what's the name, rank & serial number of
this wonder ;^) ?
I bought it off of the usbgear web site (www.usbgear.com). You can do a
search there for "removable rack" and find it. I got the one at the top of
the search results page. It's ATA USB 2.0. and it's made by a company
called Coolgear. There may be better ones around. As a matter of fact,
there's one for SATA drives on the same page at about half the price. I'm
not very knowledgeable in this area, but I thought SATA would be more
expensive than ATA, in general. Not sure what other differences there could
be (they both have internal fans). This one I got works fine for my
purposes.
Greg Wallace
12:54 p.m.
New subject: [SLE] External disk choice
On 11/11/03, Maura Edelweiss Monville <memonvil(a)artsci.wustl.edu> wrote:
I have a 4-year old DELL desktop with a heavy CRT
monitor that I'm going
to give away soon .
I also have a 2 month old laptop. Both computers run Linux/SuSE.
I would like to buy an external disk to save most of my s/w
development now residing on my old desktop.
But I would like to be able to use it also with my laptop.
Both computers have some USB ports so I daresay an external USB disk
would be fine ..
I'd appreciate some suggestion about a USB reliable, large capacity but
portable, external disk or
any alternative solution.
Thank you in advance.
Maura
Wow, I wish I lived near to you. At 4 years old that PC is still a
youngster compared to some of mine :-))))
Cue threads on who has the oldest PC running with SuSE on it.... I
think my oldest is about 8 years (AMD K6-2 450mhz). I have one older
(Pentium 166MMX) but it's not used anymore.
--
==============================================
I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate.
==============================================
Xmas may be over but, PLEASE DON'T drink and drive you'll make it to
the next one that way.
Kevan Farmer
Linux user #373362
Cheslyn Hay
Staffordshire
WS6 7HR
6:26 p.m.
New subject: [SLE] External disk choice
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 11:54 +0000, Kevanf1 wrote:
Wow, I wish I lived near to you. At 4 years old that PC is still a
youngster compared to some of mine :-))))
Cue threads on who has the oldest PC running with SuSE on it.... I
think my oldest is about 8 years (AMD K6-2 450mhz). I have one older
(Pentium 166MMX) but it's not used anymore.
--
I write this on a Gigabyte PII 350 with two 128 DIMM and an IBM 20gig
5400rpm drive. I figure its at least 8 years old.
--
___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _
| | | | [__ | | |
|___ |_|_| ___] | \/
7:44 p.m.
New subject: [SLE] External disk choice
On 10/02/06, Carl William Spitzer IV <cwsiv(a)myrealbox.com> wrote:
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 11:54 +0000, Kevanf1 wrote:
Wow, I wish I lived near to you. At 4 years old that PC is still a
youngster compared to some of mine :-))))
Cue threads on who has the oldest PC running with SuSE on it.... I
think my oldest is about 8 years (AMD K6-2 450mhz). I have one older
(Pentium 166MMX) but it's not used anymore.
--
I write this on a Gigabyte PII 350 with two 128 DIMM and an IBM 20gig
5400rpm drive. I figure its at least 8 years old.
I'm glad I'm not alone now :-)))
--
==============================================
I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate.
==============================================
Xmas may be over but, PLEASE DON'T drink and drive you'll make it to
the next one that way.
Kevan Farmer
Linux user #373362
Cheslyn Hay
Staffordshire
WS6 7HR
11 Feb
11 Feb
7:10 p.m.
New subject: [SLE] External disk choice
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 18:44 +0000, Kevanf1 wrote:
On 10/02/06, Carl William Spitzer IV
<cwsiv(a)myrealbox.com> wrote:
I wish my PIII was working as reliabily it now fails to recognize its
original 40gig drive when the PII let me do a full install. The only
thing I can not do on the PII is make the DVDRW work. Otherwise this
little Gigabit works like a champ.
--
___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _
| | | | [__ | | |
|___ |_|_| ___] | \/
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 11:54 +0000, Kevanf1
wrote:
Wow, I wish I lived near to you. At 4 years old that PC is still a
youngster compared to some of mine :-))))
Cue threads on who has the oldest PC running with SuSE on it.... I
think my oldest is about 8 years (AMD K6-2 450mhz). I have one older
(Pentium 166MMX) but it's not used anymore.
--
I write this on a Gigabyte PII 350 with two 128 DIMM and an IBM 20gig
5400rpm drive. I figure its at least 8 years old.
I'm glad I'm not alone now :-))) 
3:33 a.m.
New subject: [SLE] External disk choice
Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
I have a 4-year old DELL desktop with a heavy CRT
monitor that I'm going
to give away soon .
I also have a 2 month old laptop. Both computers run Linux/SuSE.
I would like to buy an external disk to save most of my s/w
development now residing on my old desktop.
But I would like to be able to use it also with my laptop.
Both computers have some USB ports so I daresay an external USB disk
would be fine ..
I'd appreciate some suggestion about a USB reliable, large capacity but
portable, external disk or
any alternative solution.
Well, judging from your email date, that Dell must be at least 6 years
old by now. ;-)
I recently bought an Adaptec 3.5" USB case for $20 (CDN). It will hold
any 3.5" IDE drive.
5:38 a.m.
New subject: [SLE] External disk choice
On Friday, February 10, 2006 @ 8:34 PM, James Knott wrote:
Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
> I have a 4-year old DELL desktop with a heavy CRT monitor that I'm going
> to give away soon .
> I also have a 2 month old laptop. Both computers run Linux/SuSE.
> I would like to buy an external disk to save most of my s/w
> development now residing on my old desktop.
> But I would like to be able to use it also with my laptop.
> Both computers have some USB ports so I daresay an external USB disk
> would be fine ..
> I'd appreciate some suggestion about a USB reliable, large capacity but
> portable, external disk or
> any alternative solution.
Well, judging from your email date, that Dell must be
at least 6 years
old by now. ;-)
I recently bought an Adaptec 3.5" USB case for $20
(CDN). It will hold
any 3.5" IDE drive.
Looks like this beats the heck out of my USBGEAR device for a lot less
money. I did say I was not very knowledgeable in this area, so I'm not
surprised that there are better options available than what I suggested.
Greg Wallace
5462
days inactive
6285
days old
11 comments
8 participants
participants (8)
-
Carl William Spitzer IV -
Gracia M. Littauer -
Greg Wallace -
James Knott -
Ken Schneider -
Kevanf1 -
Maura Edelweiss Monville -
S Glasoe