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LaCie Desktop Hard Disk 500 GB
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12-28-2008
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9.5
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This is a simple Lacie Desktop Hard Disk, 500GB in size, 7200rpm, USB 2.0 device with external power supply. It works great with Linux. I am using Mandriva Linux 2009 Free, using XFCE from -contrib, with a vanilla kernel downloaded and compiled from www.kernel.org. It's also rather fast, which is a plus: deleting the NTFS partition it came with was so fast I had to check again to make sure it did what I asked it to. No additional software needed, so it should work with Slackware Linux and basically any Linux with kernel 2.6.27.4 or higher.
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USB 7200rpm external power supply hard disk 500gb mac pc
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USB 2.0
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10-27-2008, 01:30 PM
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Registered: Sep 2008
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 186
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.27.4
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Mandriva 2009 Free
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Works as advertised. I accidentally put the review in the description, so here's a re-post:
It works great with Linux. I am using Mandriva Linux 2009 Free, using Xfce from -contrib, with a vanilla kernel downloaded and compiled from www.kernel.org. It's also rather fast, which is a plus: deleting the NTFS partition it came with was so fast I had to check again to make sure it did what I asked it to. No additional software needed, so it should work with Slackware Linux and basically any Linux with kernel 2.6.27.4 or higher.
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12-28-2008, 12:31 PM
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Registered: Sep 2008
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 186
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 9
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.28
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Slackware 12.2
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This is intended mainly as an update. I recently tried to install LVM on this drive, and this drive absolutely does not like LVM one bit. I did, once, wipe sda1 (32GB) so that I could temporarily extend my /home LV onto this drive, and that worked fine. Otherwise, however, using an LVM for this drive is pointless, and is also not going to work well.
However, using primary partitions with this drive does not give me any problems. Therefore I would recommend splitting this drive into four primary partitions of equal size, so that if you really need to, you can play with filesystems (for example: you need to make one FAT32 temporarily). Since most modern operating systems understand NTFS, however, I recommend sda1 as NTFS, the rest however you want, only so that you can share files with people using other operating systems (example: ISO files).
I love this thing and I'm glad I have it. Can you say nightly cron rsync for backing up /home ? :)
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