[Gllug] External USB HD recommendations

[N. Pauli]

On Mon, 01 Dec, 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.

That's the odd thing. I slung it across to a colleague who uses it on his XP set up with no problem at all. What was odd about it was that you needed two USB ports as it used one of them for its power.

> 
> 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.
> 
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