On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:59:10AM +1000, david wrote: > On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 08:44 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am looking at expanding my disk space on my box. I have turned my eye > > to these little external boxes. > > > > I was wondering has any one else on the list used one of these. > > > > I was hoping to connect to it with esata (the reason for the lacie esata > > controller). A quick google brings me lots of adds to sell but no into > > on the controller and how I will see the drives. > > > > My initial thought is to have them in hardware raid1 ( I am going to > > raid them any way no need to flood the bus with twice the amount of > > traffic). If i use raid1 and esata will linux only see one drive and > > how do I tell if there is an error with the drive ? > > don't know about this particular unit, but my experience of external > drives generally has been appalling to the point that I've given up. > > Every external firewire/usb drive i've used has ended up giving me hard > drive failure, and in some cases heart failure. Other people whose > opinion I respect have come to the same conclusion. I get the impression > that the problem has to do with power supply on the external device, but > I haven't figured that out for certain. > > I haven't used Lacies. Are they better?
i used to use one previously (about 4 years ago), last quite a long
time, then I put all the drives into my machine. then I bought larger
capacity drives, now I have a sff box and 2 drives and I need more
space, so back to external drives (I had thought about building a file
server but now looking at external drives)
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