On 11/3/07, jpff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Harmsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Peter> Has any anyone good experiences with external harddrives in > Peter> combination with OpenSuSE? > Peter> And if so what branch? > > I run 10.3 on my AMD64 x86_64 machine. Weekly I dump the 4 Linux machines > (self plus 2 32bit 10.2 machines and a Debian) onto an external USB disk -- > Seagate -- and so far with no problems, as I did when the machine was > 10.2. It was just as I expected from Linux -- it works. > > ==John ffitch
I have not heard many complaints of any external USB drive not working well on the data side. Obviously you want a USB 2 carrier, but you would have trouble finding a USB 1.1 drive anyway. The bigger question is smart support. I don't recall anyone ever saying they had an external USB drive that they could query for its smart data. In theory the external enclosure is supposed to do SAT (SCSI to ATA translation) that includes the smart features, so it is possible. Just hard to find a manufacturer that actually implemented that portion of the SAT. If this is important, you should consider a eSata Drive. For similar money ($35 enclosure + $10 sata/eSata converter bracket + same price drive) you get native sata speeds + smart support. For my lab it is the native Sata speeds that is causing us to start migrating to eSata enclosures from USB. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
