On 5/1/07, Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 08:26:12 am Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> I looking to buy an external hard drive to backup (not archive) my laptop.
> It has USB 2.0. I am looking for a desktop solution, i.e., don't need nor
> want to pay for portable powered USB drives. Capacity 80GB to 160GB range.
> Any recommendations and/or condemnations?
I have a few. I use them for backups.
The most recent one I got was from Fry's. I bought a 300 GB (that's using
the "new" term for GB) drive and a Linksys enclosure for around $120
combined.
I ended up formatting it with FAT32.
I had someone fairly knowledgeable tell me that in the real world they
are seeing problems when using FAT32 on 500GB and above drives. We've
been using FAT32 for all our external drives too, but we are
initiating the process of deciding if we want to go to EXT2 or NTFS
for the future.
I looked into this 2 or 3 years ago and did not feel comfortable going
either way at that time so we stayed with FAT. But compatible drivers
seem to have improved in both directions since then.
Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century
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