On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 15:41 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
I had a brief look at the linux-usb and the Lacie site but didn't seem to pick up what I was looking for. I did see that the Lacie 160Gb d2 external drive is Linux compatible but I wonder if anyone has prefernces for other makes or have used a particular item successfully on 9.2. In addition I do not thinkk it is exactly what I am looking for.
Are there other sites I should rather look at?
Hi Hylton, I'm not sure in which part of the country you are, but the best enclosures available locally, in my opinion, are the ones from SNT http://www.snt.com.tw/ which you can get from Cyberdyne (www.cyberdyne.co.za) They have metal bodies, and decent cooling fans built in, the USB_to_IDE circuitry is by far the best performing I've worked with, and the connectors inside are solid (instead of being flimsy cables. My recommendation would be to get one of them (you get both USB2 and USB2/Firewire combo units) and a Seagate IDE disc (they run the coolest). I'm using this as a backup solution at several clients and it works very very well in Linux. And much cheaper than buying a ready-made external disc. Hans