[ale] Recommendation for a portable USB drive for Linux

[David Tomaschik]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com> wrote:
> They’ve just handed me a WD My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB drive to put
> on one of our RHEL boxes.   The WD site doesn’t quite say they don’t do
> Linux but it also doesn’t give any guidance except “call your Linux
> distributor”.
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> What I’ve found on line about these drives doesn’t give me the warm
> fuzzies.   I’m going to try to hook it up but I’m wondering if there are
> others people would recommend that are know to work with Linux (ideally
> RHEL5/RHEL6)?

I can't say I've ever found any USB mass storage device that wouldn't
work with modern Linux systems.  Now things like one-touch backup,
etc, are obviously up in the air.


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