[ale] recommendations on external USB drive for Linux, pls

[Jerry Yu]

I need to stage backups at a co-lo. A daily full set totals 15G or so. Tape
lib/magazine option is out for now, so an external USB drive sounds good.
Anyone has recommendations based on experience?

   - $100 to $200  for for a known reliable external USB drive of decent
   size (250G or greater).
   - it needs to stay on 24x7x365 w/o overheating or burning into ashes
   - plug&play compatible with Linux (CentOS 4/i386) without tweaking usb
   or pci spec or db files here and there.
   - rack-friendly, but not required to be rack mountable.
   - name brand or your choice of  drive make/model & external enclosure
   - option to format the drive to my fs of choice (ext2/ext3/fat32), w/o
   voiding warranty
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