Re: Buying a Seagate hard drive? - note this....

"Tyler W." <xxx> writes:

ac wrote:
I will not be buying seagate again for a looong time.

extract:
SEAGATE'S latest batch of drives, the ironically titled Free Agent
series are not compatible with the Open Sauce operating system Linux.
As an INQ reader, who owns two 320s and 500s (USB2) pointed out to us,
Seagate designers must have been working overtime to manage that feat.
Linux runs his ancient Arcnet card, the latest DVB-c/s/t cards and
even the more obscure studio-grade A/D/A converters. It cannot manage
the latest from Seagate.
The problem is to do with the power-saving systems on Seagate's latest
range of drives and the fact that it is shipped already formatted to
NTFS.

Reformatting is presumably trivial. What is the power saving problem? It
would be surprizing since having people install new disk drivers does not
seem something that even windows people would do.


http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/06/seagate-snubs-linux

Is it the same for Older versions like the *Seagate 7200.10 750GB SATA
Hard Drive*
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