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

[Greg Freemyer]

We also tend to buy empty USB enclosures and then put the disk of our
choice inside.  All the modern enclosures I've tried will handle a
128+ GiB (LBA-48) drives.  We tend to spend $50 or so for a USB2
enclosure.  Ones that support Firewire are more.

We have bought and used various ones, but I don't remember any of them
giving us failures.

If you want to buy an integrated unit, the Maxtor ones appear very
nice, but I have not had one of those in service.

Greg

On 11/1/06, Robert L. Harris <Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net> wrote:
>
>
>   I got a $15 3.5" IDE drive container and put a 160Gig drive in it.
> For the last 3 months it has been connected to one of my desktops sharing
> out it's file systems via nfs and samba (backups to my xbox).  It's had 0
> problems and works very well.
>
>   At current prices you could do this for a pair of 250's and either raid
> them or rotate backups from one to the other.
>
>
> Thus spake Jerry Yu (jjj863 at gmail.com):
>
> >    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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