[ale] external hard drive

[Robert Coggins]

Speaking of drives, I just bought a 500 gig portable drive that I will
be mostly using with linux and mac.  Sometimes I might connect it to a
windows box.  What is the best file system to use so that the drive
works between all three?  Right now it is vfat but I am limited to 4 gig
files.  I would like to keep some virtuals on it...


Geoffrey, when I bought my new drive I had similar issues.  It was green
drive but I went ahead and returned it for the same drive.  I no longer
hear the noises.  But my noises might have been different; when I picked
up the drive the sound would change depending on how I tilted it.  It
still worked, but I returned it to get my comfort level up.

Rob

On 01/27/2010 09:13 AM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> Greg Freemyer wrote:
>> Is it a green drive?
>>
>> Ie. To save power, by design it powers off after a few milliseconds of non-use?
>>
>> I have seen lots of discussion of the problems they have under linux,
>> but I don't recall the details.
>>
>> Fyi: if you don't address the issue, the drive will die early if it is
>> green drive.
> 
> Doesn't say anything about being a green drive that I can see on the 
> box.  Seagate FreeAgent Desk.  My daughter has the exact same drive 
> connected to her mac, never has such issues.
> 
>>
>> Greg
>>
>> On 1/27/10, Geoffrey Myers <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>>> So, I picked up a 1.5 tb external drive.  I pushed a bunch of data off
>>> to it all went well.  Later, I connect the drive up to a couple of
>>> different boxes.  Each time, the drive is giving that really scary
>>> clicking sound you dread.  I can access the data fine, I don't see any
>>> errors being produced.  This thing is brand new, what is with this?  Any
>>> reason anyone can come up with why this drive would be making these noises?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Until later, Geoffrey
>>>
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