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

[Jerry Yu]

the servers I have don't have SATA ports exposed, so, I guess I'll buy a
(SATA->USB2) enclosure. Something like  AE5SACSU2 by Addonics costs ~$60
online.

On 11/2/06, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Jerry,
>
> I forgot to explicitly say that the sata controller does have to have
> SATA II support.  Alternatively it may say it supports 150 & 300
> MB/sec sata bus.
>
> 300 is the SATA II speed.  And AIUI SATA II is a marketing phrase.
> There is only one spec I think, but the spec allows for 150 MB/sec
> transfers and 300 MB/sec transfers.  Early controllers and drives only
> supported the 150 MB/sec speed.
>
> Greg
>
> On 11/2/06, Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > good to hear. I'll get one and also to find/buy an enclosure which
> supports
> > it.
> >
> >
> > On 11/2/06, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com > wrote:
> > >
> > > On 11/2/06, Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com > wrote:
> > > > interesting. what kind of support in the kernel and os for "SATA II
> Hard
> > > > Drive with perpendicular recording technology" ?
> > >
> > > I don't think that requires specific OS level support beyond SATA.
> > >
> > > The perpendicular part is all self-contained in the drive, and SATA II
> > > AFAIK is just a faster version of SATA, so that is handled in the
> > > controller hardware/firmware.
> > >
> > > There may be some small issues in hdparm etc. with reporting the
> > > speed/interface correctly, but that should not impact general use of
> > > that class drive.
> > >
> > > Greg
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