Re: External USB hard drive

Harold Weissman wrote:
I wonder if people who have used such hardware under Linux could contribute their experiences? I am interested in performance and

I have recently acquired a Western Digital MyBook 250GB and the performance is very good on a USB2 interface.

reliability, mostly, but also on setup simplicity.

I haven't had a chance to test the reliability as it's still new, but setup was simply a case of plugging it in and Mepis automounted it.

In particular, would using such a hard drive be an appropriate medium for backups?

That's what I'm using mine for.

I would be interested for the drive to be active only when the backup is being performed; I understand that these drives can be configured so that they stop spinning after they have not been accessed for some time.

The MyBook automatically spins down after a certain amount of inactivity and will switch itself 'off' when unmounted.

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