[Cialug] External Hard Drive

[Afan Pasalic]

buy at amazon.com and no shipping :-)

that's what I'm doing al the time...

Afan



Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> I've been using 6 WD 750gb/1tb Usb drives for the last year without
> incident.  When you included shipping it cost the same to buy them at
> locally at Staples or Walmart as it does online.
>
>
>
> On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 10:05 -0500, Lars Althof wrote:
>   
>> I got one of the small Seagate drives. It was Windows formatted (of
>> course), but it was no big deal to repartition and format with ext3.
>>
>> Matthew Lechleider wrote: 
>>     
>>> I have been shopping around for a portable USB drive for my laptop.
>>>
>>> I have been looking at the physically smaller drives such as the Western 
>>> Digital Passport.
>>>
>>>  From what I have heard the drives come with special software which can 
>>> be a pain to change the file system type.
>>>
>>> Any Linux users out there have any experiences or recommendations?
>>>
>>>
>>> Todd Walton wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Is there anything I should watch out for in geting an external hard
>>>> drive that will work with Linux?  I would think that hard drive and
>>>> USB connection would be pretty standard and Linux could use it, but
>>>> I'd like to make sure.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Todd
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