On 01/19/2018 02:30 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 18 January 2018 18:45:41 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 18/01/18 20:33, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >>> Do those External Storage work with Linux (USB3)? >>> I don't want to install any ventor-software, I just want one that plugs >>> and play. >>> >>> Any recommendations? >> >> My USB 3 stick works fine, at its full advertised speed (190MB/s read, >> 100MB/s write.) So an HD should work fine though. There's no third-party >> drivers needed. > > I've been using two bog-standard USB-3 Seagate expansion drives for a couple > of years. They're for whole-system backups of my Gentoo boxes, so they > aren't exactly heavily stressed. I haven't measured their speeds, but > they're much faster than the USB-2 drives I had before them.
Maybe SSD would perform better, but they are not cheap.
