[Cialug] External Hard Drive

[Allen Kiddoo]

You didn't state purpose- fixed location or portable?
If fixed location, this might be an option-

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3548245

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.

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.

Allen Kiddoo
Ioway Record Printing Co.
316 West Third St.
Muscatine, IA 52761
563.263.7822 office
563.506.0446 mobile
Chat: Skype: akiddoo


On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Matthew Lechleider
<matthew at lechleider.com>wrote:

> I have been shopping around for a portable USB drive for my laptop.
>
> I have been looking at the physically smaller drives such as the Western
> Digital Passport.
>
>  From what I have heard the drives come with special software which can
> be a pain to change the file system type.
>
> Any Linux users out there have any experiences or recommendations?
>
>
> Todd Walton wrote:
> > Is there anything I should watch out for in geting an external hard
> > drive that will work with Linux?  I would think that hard drive and
> > USB connection would be pretty standard and Linux could use it, but
> > I'd like to make sure.
> >
> > --
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