Re: [SLUG] USB 2 External Drive?

From: Mark Polhamus (meplists@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Jul 20 2005 - 00:54:57 EDT


steve szmidt wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 July 2005 21:59, Eben King wrote:
>>On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Mark Polhamus wrote:
>>>Any "gotchas" when choosing a USB 2 external drive to work with Linux?
>>>(Suse 9.3, kernel 2.6.11.4-21.7-smp). Hardware is a Thinkpad G41 if
>>>anyone cares.
>>>
>>>Does this "just work" with recent equipment and Linux versions? Anyone
>>>have problems getting one to work and work at USB 2 (not USB 1) speeds?
>>>Anyone happy with the drive they bought?
>>I think with USB, all you have to worry about is "does the device use
>>usb-storage", which almost all recent devices do.
>
> SanDisk appears to rule. From professionals that I've spoken to it's the best
> one.

Sorry, I should have been more explicit -- I'm looking for a hard drive,
something on the order of 200 GB. I have a SanDisk Cruzer Mini 128M flash
drive which works well.

-- Mark

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