Compatible external Hard Drives

flebber · 03-18-2007, 07:07 AM

Hi

I was hoping for some good oil on external hard drives. I am rapidly running out of space on my 60Gb hard drive and was going to purchase an external drive 250GB or bigger I will probably go with seagate or western digital or similar. Has anyone bought or used a MyBook for example and did it play well with linux.

I just don't want to soend my hard earned on something to find that it isn't a good match with linux.

Cheers

flebber

MS3FGX · 03-18-2007, 10:29 AM

The best way to insure compatibility, and at the same time the cheapest way to do it, would be to buy a HDD and a USB enclosure separately, and put them together yourself.

This gives you a little more freedom in terms of what size drive you can get, plus you can be sure that the USB enclosure is just going to be showing up as a USB mass storage device, rather than some of those commercial external HDDs that have buttons on them and such.

jschiwal · 03-18-2007, 10:36 AM

I am using the WD MyBook. It is one of the few external drives I found that has a firewire port. If does have a fan that spins up at times, so if you prefer something quiet it might not be for you.

flebber · 03-18-2007, 11:18 PM

Thanks for the replies, top idea MS3FGX I never thought of that, cheers that will save me a bit of money as well.