Thanks! -- William Sutton
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: > On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, William Sutton wrote: > > > A friend of mine is looking for some external hard disk > > units (nothing as big as a snap server or nas, just a disk > > in an external enclosure). What brands/models do you > > trust & reccommend? > > This comes up a couple of times a year here. > > I use the ME-720U2F firewire/usb enclosure, which I got > through Dealsonic for about $40 (I have two and they take > disks upto 400GBytes). The two halves of the unit snap > together. With some judicious screwdriver-fu and remembering > how they snap together, you can non-destructively separate > the two halves to change disks (like when you need a bigger > one). I leave one open to install files on a 2.5" disk for > laptops (you'll need a 3.5" to 2.5" IDE adapter as well). > > Be aware that you can't use smartmontools through a USB link > (it doesn't support the neccessary scsi commands). > > Other people here have said that they're happy with an > enclosure from Intrex. > > Joe > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
