[SLL] External Drives

[Brian Lane]

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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.
> 

Select System Preferences -> Energy Saver and uncheck the 'Put the hard
disk(s) to sleep when possible' checkbox.

There doesn't seem to be any way to selectively enable sleep, its all or
nothing.

Brian


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