Re: External, USB hard drives
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Steven Bowers wrote: Any comments on the Buslink drives? I found a site selling both 1.1 and 2.0 drives for a some-what reasonable price. Seems like all the USB 2.0 stuff is 120GB or greater and $100 and up. Since I'm primarily backing up about 1MB of data I'm not sure I need that much capacity Any suggestions on something under $100? Get thee a USB thumb drive (solid state) - for that small an amount of data, you don't need a HD. Lee Leland V. Lammert[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Scientist Omnitec Corporation Network/Internet Consultants www.omnitec.net
Re: External, USB hard drives
Quoting Steven Bowers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: speaking are they all compatible? Are there specific brands/models to stay away from? I have a USB2/Firewire combo unit based on the Prolific PL-3507 chipset. It is problematic and doing a search for it with Google finds that many other people have disasterous trouble with this garbage chipset. Some can supposedly be almost fixed with firmware updates done via software, but the first revision cant (desoldering required). I have the first version but I'd rather stay away from them altogether. A chipset to stay away from. Found in cheap units. A have a USB2 Lacie 80GB unit which works well. This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au
Re: External, USB hard drives
On 6/23/05, Steven Bowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to attach an external USB hard drive to my 3.7 machine so that I can back various files on a scheduled basis. Not having used a USB drive before thought I would ask here about them first. I am using a Seagate 80 GB USB 2.0 hard drive and it works fine. I am running OpenBSD 3.6. -- Kind regards, Jonathan
