[Gllug] External USB HD

Magnus Nilsson magnusn at advfn.com
Tue Nov 5 17:00:36 UTC 2002


On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 12:18, Stephen Harker wrote:
> Greets
> I am thinking about getting a USB 2.0 external Hard-Drive enclosure
> 
> http://usb-20.com/usbx-804.html
> 
> and putting in a cheap 120GB 5400RPM Hard disk of some sort and wondered 
> if anyone else had done this and if it all works OK. Or not. WTCMB
> Or maybe a ready made one like this...
> 
> http://usb-20.com/maxtor-x01usb2120.html
> 
> I'm sick of taking the case off PCs every time I want to shift a load of 
> big files around ie. from England to New Zealand and back :-)
> TIA
> Steve.

That shouldn't be a problem. The USB storage support in the newer
kernels is quite good.

//Magnus


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