¡Hola! So I cannot tell you about google. But for all external SATA I have ever seen applies the following: The SATA interface is branched onto a card inside the box that does the communication via the USB channel. USB3.0 as HDD interface is actually worth the money if you have 3.0 or 2.1 on your PC or laptop because even in the case of 2.1 in my experience it is still faster, even if slightly. With 3.0 hdd to 3.0 PC it becomes really fast. Besides, inside is a normal HDD in standard format. So if one day it brakes and the box is still good, you can simply change the HDD. NTFS is only on it, because it is thought to work "out of the box" with people using Windows and technically not capable to format a disc. I tried several flavours on my disks: ext4, fat32, ntfs, luks encrypted ext4. All worked out of the box in Opensuse. It may be a bit more difficult to mount multiple partitions in automatic, with or without luks encryption. But it is possible, I recall having it done I do not know what google uses to synchronize. If you use rsync you will sync only the changes and you can even fine-tune what and how often you do synchronize (but you have to RTFM, intended). Hope that helps. Hasta pronto. --- Alle Postfächer an einem Ort. Jetzt wechseln und E-Mail-Adresse mitnehmen! http://email.freenet.de/basic/Informationen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org