[ale] [OT] External USB drives

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

JK wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've been thinking about getting a (or maybe a coupla) big
> USB extrnal HDs for archival purposes.  Amazon has a
> 500GB MyBook for $129 right now, and I think two of those
> would probably hold my net information output for the
> rest of my life.  Any opinions or alternative recommendations?
> 
> Needless to say, I'd like whatever I buy to work with
> Linux.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- JK
> 

	I have a 500GB MyBook here to backup my workstation as well as my
wife's... As she runs Windows I left it with the FAT FS so I could swap
it between both systems and haven't had a problem with it. My Linux
workstation udev picks it up and auto mounts it under /media
automatically for me.

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