You didn't state purpose- fixed location or portable?<br>If fixed location, this might be an option-<br><br><a href="http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3548245">http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3548245</a><br>
<br>Portable cheap route- gut out an old portable usb cd or dvd, toss the optical drive and install your own hard drive. Sometimes not pretty but can't beat the price.<br><br>I bought an empty usb 2.5 inch case for $20 and installed an 80G spare ide from junked macbook. Format for FAT- most universal, anything can read it.<br>
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</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Matthew Lechleider <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthew@lechleider.com">matthew@lechleider.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have been shopping around for a portable USB drive for my laptop.<br>
<br>
I have been looking at the physically smaller drives such as the Western<br>
Digital Passport.<br>
<br>
From what I have heard the drives come with special software which can<br>
be a pain to change the file system type.<br>
<br>
Any Linux users out there have any experiences or recommendations?<br>
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Todd Walton wrote:<br>
> Is there anything I should watch out for in geting an external hard<br>
> drive that will work with Linux? I would think that hard drive and<br>
> USB connection would be pretty standard and Linux could use it, but<br>
> I'd like to make sure.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Todd<br>
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