[ale] Recommendation for a portable USB drive for Linux

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

On 12/14/2011 10:19 PM, David Ritchie wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 12/13/2011 03:55 PM, Lightner, Jeff 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”.
> 
> Which means if you can't make it work, our tech support folks really
> are clueless about this
> new-fangled Linux stuff, so don't ask.
> 
> I would expect it to Just Work, myself...
> 
> Best regards,
> Dave

	From my experience and knowledge, the WD USB drives over 720GB required
a Windows only (possibly Mac I can't recall) driver in order to work and
was impossible to use with Linux unless you were good enough to try and
reverse engineer the driver and do the kernel development to get it to
work for Linux. I have a 500GB My Passport that I use regularly without
problems. Also this knowledge was prior to the USB 3.0 supported models
so I can't be certain if the info I had was still accurate with those. I
just stayed away from them because I'd heard they were trouble.

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