On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 06:28, Sean Jackson wrote: > I am looked for a portable storage option (around 60G - 80G), that is > compatible with Linux for under $1000, smaller the physical size the better. > This will only be used for backups of a SCSI drive. I have looked at > external USB hard drives and figure that is probably my best option given > the above. My only concern it that most websites only talk about Windows > compatibility but I am 99% sure Linux would work. The drives I am looking at > are the Maxtor 3000LE and a Lacie d2-usb drive or the Lacie Pocket drive > (60G). Has anyone got these units to work under Linux RedHat 8.0?. Help > appreciated. Thanks.
I just went through setting up an external USB drive. It's a regular 80MB internal IDE drive set in the external enclosure and the overall cost of the whole exercise was well under 500 bucks. The enclosure came from www.pcrange.biz and costed just $100, and the drive I bought at the markets for whatever they go for these days, I can't remember the exact figure... This setup is both USB 1 and USB 2 compatible. I use it only with USB 1 and the performance is... well... what you'd expect :) But it works, and it's sufficient for the purpose of archiving. I also found there *were* some compatibility issues, but workarounds were available and in any case, they got fixed with kernel 2.4.20. --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." -- A.J Liebling, media critic -- 10:39:33 up 7 days, 3:01, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.16, 0.43-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
