On Friday 17 October 2008 11:36:04 Fergus Wilde wrote:
Hello all,
can anyone recommend, from personal successful experience, any of the very large capacity (circa 1 TB) USB external hard drives for use with Linux? I ask because I cannot find a retailer in the UK who will say they will accept a return if the product doesn't work with Linux. Anyone who can give me a model name/ number available in the UK would be specially useful. I would buy a simple 'fill-it-yourself' enclosure, but many of these appear to have non-adjustable limits on the size of disk they will read.
I have got two Western Digital 1TB internal SATA 2 drives in a RAID 1 array running very nicely under openSUSE 11
I'd also love to hear about any of the external drive ports that now seem to be going about which accept a SATA hard drive dropped in as a hot swappable connection.
I have a Sharkoon Quickport Pro external drive bay, which can connect to the main computer via ESATA (2) or USB2, and also has two USB ports on the front and an SD/MMC/MS card reader slot. It takes SATA harddrives which drop into a slot at the top, so it's quite easy to swap them around. Mine is currently holding a 750GB Samsung HD753LJ. See: http://www.sharkoon.com/html/produkte/externe_gehaeuse/sata_quickport_pro/in...
While I realise that the assumption should be that these products ought to work with any OS, there seems to be some talk of some of them having firmware only addressable from 'doze, including firmware that will cause them to go into an unwakeable sleep. I don't want to involve myself in any hardware that would cast Vista in the role of a Prince Charming having to come in and wake up a Snow White drive.
I sympathisise with your point of view :) -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.0, Kernel 2.6.25.11-0.1-default, KDE 4.1.1 Intel Celeron 2.53GB, 2GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 7600GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org