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On 28/07/10 13:54, Paul Sutton wrote:
Anyone got any recommendations regarding usb external hard disks, size about 500 to 1 tb would work fine for me, as a back up tool I take it most of these devices should just work with Linux, i see on boxes it says designed for PC / MAC.
I've got quite a few Western Digital USB disks of varying sizes (160Gb, 320Gb and 1Tb), and they all work fine with linux. I've never had a problem with them. The smaller ones are powered directly from the USB (WD Passport), my 1Tb disk is powered off a separate mains adapter.
On the other hand, I've had quite a few problems with a LaCie USB disk. It kept doing some form of "soft disconnect" --- the mount points were left in place, and I had to physically disconnect it and reconnect it to remount them. I think it's a bad sign that it needed two USB cables for a single drive (one normal, one power only) in the first place though.
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