[opensuse] Re: Large capacity USB external hard drive experiences please

On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:36:04 +0100, Fergus Wilde wrote:

can anyone recommend, from personal successful experience, any of the
very large capacity (circa 1 TB) USB external hard drives for use with
Linux? I ask because I cannot find a retailer in the UK who will say
they will accept a return if the product doesn't work with Linux. Anyone
who can give me a model name/ number available in the UK would be
specially useful. I would buy a simple 'fill-it-yourself' enclosure, but
many of these appear to have non-adjustable limits on the size of disk
they will read.

I've owned two of the Maxtor OneTouch III drives - one of them suffered a
hardware failure (I probably posted here for help in recovering some of
the data - unfortunately, I wasn't able to recover much). That device
has two 500 GB drives in it. I still have one that I use for work and it
works great.

I replaced the failed one with a WD MyBook Home Edition drive - eSata,
USB, and I think Firewire (I use the USB interface presently). Also
works very nicely with Linux.

The biggest "challenge" I've run into with USB dries on Linux isn't so
much the drives, but the interfaces. I purchased an inexpensive USB 2.0
card from CompUSA, and the chipset wasn't well supported by Linux, so the
card never worked properly for me.

Jim

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