[ale] external hard drive

[Geoffrey Myers]

Robert Coggins wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, I think I'm going to do the same.

> 
> 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
>>>>
>>>> "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
>>>> the government from wasting the labors of the people under
>>>> the pretense of taking care of them."
>>>> - Thomas Jefferson
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Until later, Geoffrey

"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson