On Fri November 2 2007, Peter Harmsen scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer:

Has any anyone good experiences with external harddrives in combination with OpenSuSE? And if so what branch? If you mean Brand I've got a Lacie 250 GB ; firewire; external.. it's great. Works as advertised, and is likely to have another one helping out soon. It's stuffed to the gills.. I'm not certain how it would survive if you dropped it..

I'm hoping to find a big flash drive , to put important files and settings on.. I have read they are now up above 26 GB, tho I've not seen any. ( I'm guessing they are in , or going to be put into laptops and handhelds, possibly, even phones. ) HTH -- j I've lived in the real world enough, we're all here because we ain't all there. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Friday 02 November 2007 13:40, Peter Harmsen wrote:

Has any anyone good experiences with external harddrives in combination with OpenSuSE? And if so what branch?

I've had some very good experiences with external harddrives. I plug them in, they load up. Pretty simple. I have one 350GB drive with EXT2 that is slower than dirt and one 500GB drive with FAT32 that runs just fine. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 11/3/07, jpff wrote:

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"Peter" == Peter Harmsen writes:

Peter> Has any anyone good experiences with external harddrives in Peter> combination with OpenSuSE? Peter> And if so what branch?

I run 10.3 on my AMD64 x86_64 machine. Weekly I dump the 4 Linux machines (self plus 2 32bit 10.2 machines and a Debian) onto an external USB disk -- Seagate -- and so far with no problems, as I did when the machine was 10.2. It was just as I expected from Linux -- it works.

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I have not heard many complaints of any external USB drive not working well on the data side. Obviously you want a USB 2 carrier, but you would have trouble finding a USB 1.1 drive anyway. The bigger question is smart support. I don't recall anyone ever saying they had an external USB drive that they could query for its smart data. In theory the external enclosure is supposed to do SAT (SCSI to ATA translation) that includes the smart features, so it is possible. Just hard to find a manufacturer that actually implemented that portion of the SAT. If this is important, you should consider a eSata Drive. For similar money ($35 enclosure + $10 sata/eSata converter bracket + same price drive) you get native sata speeds + smart support. For my lab it is the native Sata speeds that is causing us to start migrating to eSata enclosures from USB. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Thank you all for sharing the experiences. Now i'm confident to buy an external usb 2.0 harddrive shortly. Although i'm a fierless heavy gmail user, i now reach a point with all the apps,ebooks,and documents where downloading them over and over again just isn't an option. kind regards, Peter On 11/3/07, James Knott wrote:

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On Friday 02 November 2007 13:40, Peter Harmsen wrote:

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Has any anyone good experiences with external harddrives in combination with OpenSuSE? And if so what branch?

I've had some very good experiences with external harddrives. I plug them in, they load up. Pretty simple.

I have one 350GB drive with EXT2 that is slower than dirt and one 500GB drive with FAT32 that runs just fine.

I also have several USB drives that I use with SUSE 10.3. I've got two external hard drives (160 GB & 500 MB), a camera and Nokia N800, both of which appear as external drives and several flash drives. All work well.

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