good external hard drives (e.g. WD Elements)?
Roberto Ragusa
mail at robertoragusa.it
Fri Jul 17 20:14:19 UTC 2009
Tim wrote:
> Does anybody know if the "WD Elements" hard drives in enclosures with
> USB ports work with Fedora pain free?
My WD Elements 1TB works perfectly here on F10.
I don't know how it was partitioned or formatted, I've just rewritten
every byte on the disk (I have a big encrypted filesystem on the
unpartitioned device).
It has an external power supply (the 3.5" SATA disk needs probably
too much power for a USB port), but if you disconnect the USB cable
the drive just spins down. I found this feature really smart:
no wasted power if you have the power supply always connected.
> Now I'm wondering what can be trusted as a medium for removable backups.
> I much prefer the notion of something like a drive that carries
> uncompressed copies of files, for direct access to a backup. Rather
> than serial access tapes, or terribly slow multi-DVD collections.
Agreed.
My drive is exactly a backup. Multiple copies of the data from many
machines (backup scripts based on rsync and hardlinks).
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Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it
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