[Gllug] External USB HD recommendations

[michael norman]

On Monday 01 December 2008 14:24:50 Peter Corlett wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 02:13:00PM +0000, N. Pauli wrote:
> > Can anyone recommend an external USB2 HDD that I can use with Ubuntu 8.04
> > (Hardy) kernel 2.6.24-21-generic?
>
> They should all work, barring hardware failure, which is presumably what
> happened in your case.
>
> I build my own by buying separate drive and enclosure. That way I can avoid
> being lumbered with a rubbish drive mechanism, such as all Maxtors and
> those infamous 1.5TB Seagates with the dodgy firmware. Enclosures are much
> of a muchness: they're all cheap crap and likely to go bad well before the
> drive fails, so buy a spare and be prepared to swap your disk into it.

You might also want to try one of these

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=222999

Works really well here

Mike


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