[SLL] External Drives

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2008, Shawn W. wrote:
>
>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.

I always figured the Firewire would be better than USB on Linux systems,
largely because it is an IEEE standard, and has been used extensively by
Apple for years.  Unfortunately I've had problems with the FireWire drives
on Linux, often losing connection to the drives which only a reboot would
fix.  The same drives have not given problems when connected via USB.

One of the most cost-effective drives today seems to be the LaCie
Quadra 500GB unit which has Firewire 400, Firewire 800, USB2, and
SATA in a singla package.  They're about $190 at newegg.com.

Bill
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