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

Brian D. Pitts bpitts at LearnLink.Emory.Edu
Thu Nov 2 16:27:27 EST 2006


>On 11/2/06, Jerry Yu <[ mailto:jjj863 at gmail.com ]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've got a couple of the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10's in a backup server. Big,
fast, and cheap- 320GB, 4ms latency and 16mb cache, $95 on Newegg. No problems
on CentOS 4.3 other the hdparm/libata incompatibility.

-Brian

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