[Malvern] External HDs

[Ian Pascoe]

Guys

Thinking of getting some external (to be easily removable) storage.  My only
real criteria is that it's > 250Gb and ideally powered from the PC.  This
gives me a choice of eithre USB 2.0 or SATA drives; maybe also IDE?

The interface to the host PC is USB 2.0 as I've acquired a couple of
Viglen's MPC-L;s  and they're not short of USB sockets, with a view to
making them file servers.

I don't mind mounting them in a multi bay caddy if the caddy requires it's
own power  supply, but not power supplys to individual drives.

The drives have to be both Linux and Windblows compatible.  There will be in
multiples of 2 - one the live disk and the other a carbon copy of it -
thought of RAID but it doesn't give me the pull out and use elsewhere ease
of use.

To an aside, anyone have current experience of the Windblows X3  drivers -
are they any more reliable than they were a couple of years ago?

Peoples thoughts?

Ian