[SLL] External Drives

[Shawn W.]

On Jan 2, 2008, at 7:33 AM, Eric Kahklen wrote:

> We are looking to buy an external drive to back up data off our  
> Linux server.  At home I have a Western Digital and Acomdata that  
> seem to work well.  I've heard terrible things about the Maxtor One  
> Touch.  What models have people had good luck with?
>


I have a One Touch hooked up to a Mac (Via firewire, a much better  
option than USB for external storage imo). My only complaint with it  
is that the idle timeout before it spins down to save power is too  
short (And the spin-up time the next time you access a file on it is  
long), and there doesn't seem to be a way to change it. Oh, and it  
came formatted with a ntfs partition, but wiping that and putting  
hpfs on it was trivial.

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Shawn W.
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