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Old 07-05-2009, 02:05 PM   #1
tommytea
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Question Best 1TB external hard drive?


I switched to Ubuntu about a year age and found that some of my external hard drives worked (LaCie) and some didn't (Seagate). I now need a new, larger (1TB) and would really like to avoid these problems. Can anyone suggest a good drive that will work right out of the box?
 
Old 07-05-2009, 02:12 PM   #2
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All hard drives should work out of the box, I've never had one that didn't
 
Old 07-05-2009, 02:32 PM   #3
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I had two Seagate drives that would not work at all with Ubuntu. The chatter at that time was that Seagate had some sort of feature that would not allow the volume to mount. I tried several suggested fixes and finally gave up.
 
  


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