[Cialug] External Hard Drive

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

I've been using 6 WD 750gb/1tb Usb drives for the last year without
incident.  When you included shipping it cost the same to buy them at
locally at Staples or Walmart as it does online.



On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 10:05 -0500, Lars Althof wrote:
> I got one of the small Seagate drives. It was Windows formatted (of
> course), but it was no big deal to repartition and format with ext3.
> 
> Matthew Lechleider 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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