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