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Seagate ST3320820U2-RK
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1 9654 03-31-2007
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100% of reviewers None indicated 9.0



Description: 320GB External USB 2.0 Hard Drive
Keywords: 320GB External Hard Drive USB 2.0
Connection Type: USB


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Old 03-31-2007, 04:07 PM   #1
nafan
 
Registered: May 2004
Distribution: Mandriva 2009.0 Powerpack
Posts: 172

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.20-gentoo-r3
Distribution: Gentoo 2..6.1



Purchased as a quick'n'dirty backup drive as a colleague had recommended a lower capacity model some time ago. The drive works flawlessly, easily re-partitioned to suit you needs. I've carved this one up in two, 5oGB for use with windows and formatted with fat32, the rest with a reiser filesystem for Linux.

The only con I can come up with is that the drive spins down too fast resulting in a small delay on accessing/mounting/umounting it, but that's not a problem for me.

Coupled with a few simple udev rules to create /dev/seagate-vfat and /dev/seagate-reiser so that I can mount the partitions without looking through kernel messages for the correct entries in /dev

This is my favourite new toy!
 




  



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