[Gllug] recommendation for external hard drive

[Daniel Kingshott]

I've found the sea agent drives to be hideously annoying when they go into 'sleep' mode and take some time to wake up.

 

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From: gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk [mailto:gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Stuart Sears
Sent: 21 October 2009 13:03
To: Greater London Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [Gllug] recommendation for external hard drive

On Wednesday 21 October 2009 12:31:21 Peter Corlett wrote:
> On 21 Oct 2009, at 01:12, Na Nas wrote:
> > I need to make sure that the external hard drive that I buy does 
> > work with Ubuntu. I need it to be usb-only-powered and to be portable.
> 
> They will all work on Linux or any other OS that understand USB mass- 
> storage devices.
> 
> > I'd be grateful for any recommendation.
> 
> There's not much in it as the USB interface hobbles the drive 
> performance, but try to avoid Maxtor. I'm quite partial to Western 
> Digital drives, but haven't tried their USB units.

I've never understood the anti-maxtor thing. Maybe I've just been extremely lucky, but they've been extremely reliable for me.

I've both a Freecom 100Gb usb-powered drive (about 4½years old now and still going strong) and a new seagate "Freeagent Go" 500Gb that work rather well.

More or less any usb-powered harddrive should be fine, though.

Regards,

Stuart
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